Grand challenges in protoplanetary disc modelling
Abstract
The Protoplanetary Discussions conference --- held in Edinburgh, UK, from 7th --11th March 2016 --- included several open sessions led by participants. This paper reports on the discussions collectively concerned with the multiphysics modelling of protoplanetary discs, including the self-consistent calculation of gas and dust dynamics, radiative transfer and chemistry. After a short introduction to each of these disciplines in isolation, we identify a series of burning questions and grand challenges associated with their continuing development and integration. We then discuss potential pathways towards solving these challenges, grouped by strategical, technical and collaborative developments. This paper is not intended to be a review, but rather to motivate and direct future research and collaboration across typically distinct fields based on \textit{community driven input}, to encourage further progress in our understanding of circumstellar and protoplanetary discs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.01315,
title = {Grand challenges in protoplanetary disc modelling},
author = {Thomas J. Haworth and John D. Ilee and Duncan H. Forgan and Stefano Facchini and Daniel J. Price and Community authors and Dominika M. Boneberg and Richard A. Booth and Cathie J. Clarke and Jean-François Gonzalez and Mark A. Hutchison and Inga Kamp and Guillaume Laibe and Wladimir Lyra and Farzana Meru and Subhanjoy Mohanty and Olja Panić and Ken Rice and Takeru Suzuki and Catherine Walsh and Peter Woitke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01315},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in PASA. 25 pages