Long-term and large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of migrating planets
Abstract
We present a new method that allows long-term and large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of migrating planets over a grid-based Eulerian code. This technique, which consists in a remapping of the disk by tracking the planetary migration, enables runs of migrating planets over a time comparable to the age of protoplanetary disks. This method also has the potential to address efficiently problems related with migration of multi-planet systems in gaseous disks, and to improve current results of migration of massive planets by including global viscous evolution as well as detailed studies of the co-orbital region during migration. We perform different tests using the public code FARGO3D to validate this method and compare its results with those obtained using a classical fixed grid.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.01618,
title = {Long-term and large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of migrating planets},
author = {Pablo Benítez-Llambay and Ximena S. Ramos and Cristian Beaugé and Frédéric Masset},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01618},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in ApJ. For a movie describing the method, see https://youtu.be/66o0Z2lX8NU