Magneto-Hydrodynamics of Mass Accretion in Close Binary Systems and Protostars

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1 General Introduction and Summary

I: Secular Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables

2 An analytic approach to the secular evolution of cataclysmic variables

II: Accretion Disks in Close Binary Systems

3 Hydrodynamics of accretion disks of variable thickness

4 Hydrodynamic simulations of CV accretion disks in outburst

III: Magnetic Fields in Accretion Disks

5 Interchange instability in an accretion disc with a poloidal magnetic field

6 The stability of accretion disks threaded by a magnetic field

IV: Population Synthesis of Cataclysmic Variables

7 Modelling Population II Cataclysmic Variables

8 The systematic-velocity distribution of cataclysmic variables

9 The age of cataclysmic variables

10 Samenvatting

DANKE - THANK YOU - BEDANKT

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