Slim accretion disks around black holes

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In this thesis, I study hydrodynamical models of slim accretion disks --- advective, optically thick disks which generalize the standard models of radiatively efficient thin disks to all accretion rates.

• I start with a general introduction to the theory of accretion onto compact objects.
• It is followed by a derivation of the commonly-used standard models of thin disks.
• In the subsequent section I introduce the equations describing slim disks, explain the numerical methods I used to solve them and discuss properties of such solutions.