Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Stability of Dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries
Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Stability of Dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries
Hydrodynamical simulations of semidetached, polytropic binary stars are presented in an effort to study the onset and stability of dynamical mass transfer events. Initial, synchronously rotating equilibrium models are constructed using a self-consistent field technique and then evolved with an Eulerian hydrodynamics code in a fully self-consistent manner. We describe …