Accretion flows, jets, and hydrodynamic disks around compact objects.
publicationA Numerical Study of Nonspherical Black Hole Accretion. I. Equations and Test Problems
J. Hawley, J. R. Wilson, and L. Smarr, Astrophysical Journal, 277, 296-311 (1984).
publicationGeneral Relativistic Hydrodynamics And Accretion Physics: A Numerical Approach
J. F. Hawley and L. Smarr, In Problems of Collapse and Numerical Relativity, 256-269,, ed. D. Bancel and M. Signore (Reidel: Dordrecht) (1984).
publicationA Numerical Study of Nonspherical Black Hole Accretion. II. Finite Differencing and Code Calibration
J. Hawley, J. R. Wilson, and L. Smarr, Astrophysical Journal Suppl., 55, 211-246 (1984).
publicationNumerical Models of Fat Disks: New Scenarios for Fluid Accretion into Black Holes
J. Hawley and L. Smarr, in Numerical Astrophysics, 30-51, ed. J. Centrella, J. LeBlanc, and R. Bowers (Jones and Bartlett: Boston) (1985).
publicationGeneral Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
J. H. Sloan and L. L. Smarr, in Numerical Astrophysics, 52-68, ed. J. Centrella, J. LeBlanc, and R. Bowers (Jones and Bartlett: Boston) (1985).
publicationAn Approach to Complexity: Numerical Computations – Science Magazine
Science 26 Apr 1985: Vol. 228, Issue 4698, pp. 403-408 DOI: 10.1126/science.228.4698.403
publicationNew Paradigms For Black Hole Accretion From High-Resolution Supercomputer Experiments
J. F. Hawley and L. Smarr, in American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 144: Magnetospheric Phenomena in Astrophysics, 263-290, ed. R. I. Epstein and W. C. Feldman (American Institute of Physics: New York) (1986).