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We studied the linear and nonlinear evolution of the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) in axisymmetric models of protoplanetary disks, focusing on the transport of angular momentum, the produced temperature perturbations, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Mario Flock , Hubert Klahr

We revisit the global linear theory of the vertical shear instability (VSI) in protoplanetary discs with an imposed radial temperature gradient. We focus on the regime in which the VSI has the form of a travelling inertial wave that grows…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur

(abridged) Context: The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism to generate turbulence and transport angular momentum in protoplanetary discs. While most recent work has focused on adding more complex physics, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Geoffroy Lesur , Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Among the candidates for generating turbulence in accretion discs in situations with low intrinsic ionization the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an interesting candidate, as it relies purely on a vertical gradient in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Wilhelm Kley

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a hydrodynamical instability likely to produce turbulence in the dead zones of protoplanetary disks. Various aspects of this instability remain to be understood, including the disk regions where it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Mario Flock , Hubert Klahr

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the nonlinear outcomes and observability of vertical shear instability (VSI) in protoplanetary disks. Our models include both vertically isothermal and thermally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Han-Gyeol Yun , Woong-Tae Kim , Jaehan Bae , Cheongho Han

Vertical shear instability (VSI), driven by a vertical gradient of rotational angular velocity, is a promising source of turbulence in protoplanetary disks. We examine the semi-global stability of thermally stratified disks and find that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Han-Gyeol Yun , Woong-Tae Kim , Jaehan Bae , Cheongho Han

Protoplanetary discs should exhibit a weak vertical variation in their rotation profiles. Typically this `vertical shear' issues from a baroclinic effect driven by the central star's radiation field, but it might also arise during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Henrik N. Latter , Matthew W. Kunz

The vertical shear instability (VSI) offers a potential hydrodynamic mechanism for angular momentum transport in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). The VSI is driven by a weak vertical gradient in the disk's orbital motion, but must overcome…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Min-Kai Lin , Andrew N. Youdin

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is widely believed to be effective in driving turbulence in protoplanetary disks. Prior studies on VSI exclusively exploit the reflecting boundary conditions (BCs) at the disk surfaces. VSI depends…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Yuzi Wu , Cong Yu , Can Cui

If sufficiently irradiated by its central star, a protoplanetary disks falls into an equilibrium state exhibiting vertical shear. This state may be subject to a hydrodynamical instability, the `vertical shear instability' (VSI), whose…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Henrik N. Latter , John Papaloizou

Turbulence is crucial for protoplanetary disk dynamics, and Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism in outer disk regions to generate turbulence. We use Athena++ radiation module to study VSI in full and transition disks,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang

The Vertical Shear Instability is an axisymmetric effect suggested to drive turbulence in the magnetically inactive zones of protoplanetary accretion disks. Here we examine its physical mechanism in analytically tractable ``minimal models"…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Ron Yellin-Bergovoy , Eyal Heifetz , Orkan M. Umurhan

We explore the linear stability of astrophysical discs exhibiting vertical shear, which arises when there is a radial variation in the temperature or entropy. Such discs are subject to a "vertical-shear instability", which recent nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Adrian J. Barker , Henrik N. Latter

Recently, the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an attractive purely hydrodynamic candidate for the anomalous angular momentum transport required for weakly ionized accretion disks. In direct three-dimensional numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a source of hydrodynamic turbulence that can drive vigorous vertical mixing and moderate levels of accretion in protoplanetary disks, and it could be observable in the near future. With…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Alexandros Ziampras , Wilhelm Kley , Richard P. Nelson

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a hydrodynamical instability that requires rapid gas cooling and has been suggested to operate in outer regions of protoplanetary disks. The VSI drives turbulence with strong vertical motions, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi , Tomohiro Ono

A high resolution fourth-order Pad\'e scheme is used to simulate locally isothermal 3D disk turbulence driven by the vertical shear instability (VSI) using 268.4 M points. In the early non-linear period of axisymmetric VSI, angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Karim Shariff , Orkan M. Umurhan

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate turbulence-driving mechanisms in the outer disk region. Since the VSI requires rapid gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuya Fukuhara , Mario Flock , Satoshi Okuzumi , Ryosuke T. Tominaga

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a robust and potentially important phenomenon in irradiated protoplanetary disks (PPDs), yet the mechanism by which it saturates remains poorly understood. Global simulations suggest that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Can Cui , Henrik Latter
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