English

Vertical shear instability in the solar nebula

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2016-03-08 v1

Abstract

We quantify the thermodynamic requirement for the Vertical Shear Instability and evaluate its relevance to realistic protoplanetary disks as a potential route to hydrodynamic turbulence.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.01615,
  title  = {Vertical shear instability in the solar nebula},
  author = {Min-Kai Lin and Andrew N. Youdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01615},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

IAUS 314 proceedings, main paper arXiv:1505.02163

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