Angular momentum transport in astrophysics and in the lab

• Autores: Hantao Ji, Steven Balbus
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 66, Nº. 8, 2013, pág. 27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For evolving astrophysical accretion disks to concentrate their mass and still conserve angular momentum, turbulent flows are crucial. Those flows cannot be directly observed, so to understand them better physicists are creating them in modest-sized laboratory experiments