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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
A two-dimensional time-dependent spectral code is used for the study of tidal effects in accretion discs. A cool disc around a white dwarf (characteristic of CV systems) is modeled under the assumption of a polytropic equation of state and a standard alpha viscosity prescription. For a mass ratio q < 0.1 (considered here) and under the assumption of a reflective inner boundary, tidal effects induce an eccentric (m=l azimuthal) mode in the disc together with an elliptic (m=2 azimuthal) mode in the inner disc.