English
Related papers

Related papers: Dust Settling Instability in Protoplanetary Discs

200 papers

We investigate the dynamics of dust concentration in actively accreting, substructured, non-ideal MHD wind-launching disks using 2D and 3D simulations incorporating pressureless dust fluids of various grain sizes and their aerodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Chun-Yen Hsu , Zhi-Yun Li , Yisheng Tu , Xiao Hu , Min-Kai Lin

Dust at the midplane of a circumstellar disk can become gravitationally unstable and fragment into planetesimals if the local dust-to-gas density ratio mu is sufficiently high. We simulate how dust settles in passive disks and ask how high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Aaron T. Lee , Eugene Chiang , Xylar Asay-Davis , Joe Barranco

The streaming instability is a leading candidate mechanism to explain the formation of planetesimals. Yet, the role of this instability in the driving of turbulence in protoplanetary disks, given its fundamental nature as a linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Urs Schäfer , Anders Johansen , Robi Banerjee

Damping of the previously discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is studied using the local approach to dynamics of gas-dust perturbations in the limit of the small dust fraction. Turbulence in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 V. V. Zhuravlev

We investigate the evolution of dust and gas in the vicinity of local pressure enhancements (pressure bumps) in a protoplanetary disc (PPD) with turbulence due to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). We perform global 2D axisymmetric and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

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

Streaming instability is a powerful mechanism which concentrates dust grains in pro- toplanetary discs, eventually up to the stage where they collapse gravitationally and form planetesimals. Previous studies inferred that it should be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Jérémy Auffinger , Guillaume Laibe

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

Context: The radial drift and fragmentation of small dust grains in protoplanetary discs impedes their growth past centimetre sizes. Several mechanisms have been proposed to overcome these planet formation barriers, such as dust porosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jean-François Gonzalez , Stéphane Michoulier

The streaming instability (SI) is a leading mechanism for concentrating solid particles into regions dense enough to form planetesimals. Its efficiency in clumping particles depends primarily on the dimensionless stopping time ($\tau_s$, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Jeonghoon Lim , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Daniel Carrera , Stanley A. Baronett , Andrew N. Youdin , Wladimir Lyra , Chao-Chin Yang

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

Instabilities of the dust layer in a protoplanetary disk are investigated. It is known that the streaming instability develops and dust density concentration occurs in a situation where the initial dust density is uniform. This work…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Naoki Ishitsu , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Minoru Sekiya

Context: How planets form in protoplanetary disks and what drives the formation of their seeds is still a major unknown. It is an accepted theory that multiple processes can trap dusty material in radially narrow rings or vortex-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Dominik Ostertag , Mario Flock

In this study we investigate the axisymmetric, weakly turbulent state of settled particle layers in a localized model of a protoplanetary disk. We focus on conditions in which the large-scale axisymmetric filaments typically associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Orkan M. Umurhan , Debanjan Sengupta , Paul R. Estrada

Our previous linear analysis presents a new instability driven by dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks. The coagulation instability has the potential to concentrate dust grains into rings and assist dust coagulation and planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate dust growth due to settling in a 1D vertical column of a protoplanetary disk. It is known from the observed 10 micron feature in disk SEDs, that small micron-sized grains are present at the disk atmosphere throughout the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Zsom , C. W. Ormel , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning

In protoplanetary disks the aerodynamical friction between particles and gas induces a variety of instabilities that facilitate planet formation. Of these we examine the so-called `secular gravitational instability' (SGI) in the two-fluid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Henrik Latter , Roxana Rosca

In the recent years, sub/mm observations of protoplanetary disks have discovered an incredible diversity of substructures in the dust emission. An important result was the finding that dust grains of mm size are embedded in very thin dusty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

The streaming instability is a leading mechanism for concentrating solids and initiating planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Although numerous studies have explored its linear growth, nonlinear evolution, and implications for…

The streaming instability is an efficient method for overcoming the barriers to planet formation in protoplanetary discs. The streaming instability has been extensively modelled by hydrodynamic simulations of gas and a single dust size.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jip Matthijsse , Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper