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It has been suggested that the transition between magnetorotationally active and dead zones in protoplanetary disks should be prone to the excitation of vortices via Rossby wave instability (RWI). However, the only numerical evidence for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Wladimir Lyra , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is a promising mechanism for producing large-scale vortices in protoplanetary discs. The instability operates around a density bump in the disc, and the resulting vortices may facilitate planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. Meheut , C. Yu , D. Lai

The Rossby wave instability (RWI), which depends on the density bumps and extremum in the vortensities in the differentially rotating discs, plays an important role in the evolution of the protoplanetary discs. In this article, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mahmoud Gholipour , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered the underlying mechanism to crescent-shaped azimuthal asymmetries, discovered in (sub-)millimeter dust continuum of many protoplanetary disks. Previous works on linear theory were conducted in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Can Cui , Ashutosh Tripathi , Cong Yu , Min-Kai Lin , Andrew Youdin

We study the effect of large-scale magnetic fields on the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) in accretion discs. The instability develops around a density bump, which is likely present in the transition region between the active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Cong Yu , Dong Lai

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) in non-self-gravitating discs can be triggered by a bump at a radius $r_0$ in the disc surface mass-density (which is proportional to the inverse potential vorticity). It gives rise to a growing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. V. E. Lovelace , R. G. Hohlfeld

The physical mechanism of angular momentum transport in poorly ionized regions of protoplanetary discs, the dead zones (DZs), is not understood. The presence of a DZ naturally leads to conditions susceptible to the Rossby wave instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ryan Miranda , Dong Lai , Heloise Meheut

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is the fundamental non-axisymmetric radial shear instability in disks. The RWI can facilitate disk accretion, set the shape of planetary gaps and produce large vortices. It arises from density and/or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Eonho Chang , Andrew N. Youdin

A brief review is given of the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in astrophysical discs. In non-self-gravitating discs, around for example a newly forming stars, the instability can be triggered by an axisymmetric bump at some radius $r_0$ in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-11 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

The Rossby Wave Instability (RWI) has become an important concept in understanding the hydrodynamics (HDs) of accretion discs (ADs), especially in systems around black holes (BHs) where magnetic effects are either weak or absent. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Bibhuti Bhusan Dutta , Liza Devi , Biplob Sarkar , Asish Jyoti Boruah

Rings and gaps are routinely observed in the dust continuum emission of protoplanetary discs (PPDs). How they form and evolve remains debated. Previous studies have demonstrated the possibility of spontaneous gas rings and gaps formation in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Chun-Yen Hsu , Zhi-Yun Li , Yisheng Tu , Xiao Hu , Min-Kai Lin

Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observation of large dust asymmetries in several transitional discs.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Min-Kai Lin

By means of three dimensional resistive-magnetohydrodynamical models, we study the evolution of the so-called dead zones focused on the magnitude of the Reynolds and Maxwell stresses. We consider two different types of static resistivity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Raúl O. Chametla , Ondrej Chrenko , Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz , F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo

We carry out two-fluid, two-dimensional global hydrodynamic simulations to test whether protostellar infall can trigger Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetry disks. Our results show that infall can trigger the RWI and generate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu

Recent numerical simulations have revealed that dust clumping and planetesimal formation likely proceed in ring-like disc substructures, where dust gets trapped in weakly turbulent pressure maxima. The streaming instability has difficulty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 Hanpu Liu , Xue-Ning Bai

We use a multi-dimensional hydrodynamics code to study the gravitational interaction between an embedded planet and a protoplanetary disk with emphasis on the generation of vortensity (potential vorticity) through a Baroclinic Instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shangli Ou , Jianghui Ji , Lin Liu , Xiaomeng Peng

We investigate planetary migration in the dead zone of a protoplanetary disk where there are a set of spiral waves propagating inward due to the turbulence in the active zone and the Rossby wave instability (RWI), which occurs at the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 R. O. Chametla , O. Chrenko , W. Lyra , N. J. Turner

We have performed general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) simulations of 2D discs orbiting around spinning black holes and prone to the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI). We show that the RWI can develop at any location in the disc and for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 F. Casse , P. Varniere

Protoplanetary disks with non-axisymmetric structures have been observed. The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered as one of the origins of the non-axisymmetric structures. We perform linear stability analyses of the RWI in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Tomohiro Ono , Takayuki Muto , Taku Takeuchi , Hideko Nomura

The linear Rossby wave instability (RWI) in global, 3D polytropic discs is revisited with a much simpler numerical method than that previously employed by the author. The governing partial differential equation is solved with finite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-26 Min-Kai Lin
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