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In protoplanetary discs, the coagulation of dust grains into large aggregates still remains poorly understood. Grain porosity appears to be a promising solution to allow the grains to survive and form planetesimals. Furthermore, dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Stéphane Michoulier , Jean-François Gonzalez

Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In this paper, we show how the two-fluid equations describing the evolution of a dust and gas mixture can be reformulated to describe a single fluid moving with the barycentric velocity of the mixture. This leads to evolution equations for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

We present a new method of identifying protostellar disc fragments in a simulation based on density derivatives, and analyse our data using this and the existing CLUMPFIND method, which is based on an ordered search over all particles in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Cassandra Hall , Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

Observations of protoplanetary disks provide information on planet formation and the reasons for the diversity of planetary systems. The key to understanding planet formation is the study of dust evolution from small grains to pebbles.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Riccardo Franceschi , Tilman Birnstiel , Thomas Henning , Anirudh Sharma

Multi-wavelength dust continuum observations of protoplanetary disks are essential for accurately measuring two key ingredients of planets formation theories: the dust mass and grain size. Unfortunately, they are also extremely…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Elena M. Viscardi , Enrique Macías , Francesco Zagaria , Anibal Sierra , Haochang Jiang , Tomohiro Yoshida , Pietro Curone

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

The key role that dust plays in the interstellar medium has motivated the development of numerical codes designed to study the coupled evolution of dust and gas in systems such as turbulent molecular clouds and protoplanetary discs. Drift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-02 Andrew Lehmann , Mark Wardle

We have developed a new model for the astrochemical structure of a viscously evolving protoplanetary disk that couples an analytic description of the disk's temperature and density profile, chemical evolution, and an evolving dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-10 Alex J. Cridland , Ralph E. Pudritz , Tilman Birnstiel

Exascale supercomputing unleashes the potential for simulations of astrophysical systems with unprecedented resolution. Taking full advantage of this computing power requires the development of new algorithms and numerical methods that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 L. Sewanou , G. Laibe , B. Commerçon

Context: In protoplanetary discs, micron-sized dust grows to form millimetre- to centimetre-sized pebbles but encounters several barriers during its evolution. Collisional fragmentation and radial drift impede further dust growth to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Stéphane Michoulier , Jean-François Gonzalez , Daniel J. Price

Dust substructures observed in protoplanetary disks are commonly attributed to embedded planets; however, intrinsic gas-dust interactions can also generate complex morphologies. We performed two-dimensional, axisymmetric simulations of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaqing Bi , Mario Flock , Dominik Ostertag , Neele Lüttkemöller , Sebastian Wolf

Vertical gas and dust flows in protoplanetary discs waft material above the midplane region in the presence of a protoplanet. This motion may alter the delivery of dust to the planet and its circumplanetary disc, as well as through a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Hannah J. Petrovic , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

The thermodynamic structure of protoplanetary discs is determined by dust opacities, which depend on the size of the dust grains and their chemical composition. In the inner regions, the grain sizes are regulated by the level of turbulence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jonas Müller , Sofia Savvidou , Bertram Bitsch

Imaging of the dust continuum emitted from disks around nearby protostars reveals diverse substructure. In recent years, theoretical efforts have been intensified to investigate how far the intrinsic dynamics of protoplanetary disks (PPDs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Leonardo Krapp , Oliver Gressel , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Turlough P. Downes , Gopakumar Mohandas , Martin E. Pessah

We present high-resolution 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the formation and evolution of protostellar discs in a turbulent molecular cloud. Using a piecewise polytropic equation of state, we perform two sets of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Hayfield , L. Mayer , J. Wadsley , A. C. Boley

A systematic analysis of methods for computing the trajectories of solid-phase particles applied in modern astrophysics codes designed for modeling gas-dust circumstellar disks has been carried out for the first time. The motion of grains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Valeriy N. Snytnikov , Eduard I. Vorobyov

We discovered a new growth mode of dust grains to km-sized bodies in protoplanetary disks that evolve by viscous accretion and magnetically driven disk winds (MDWs). We solved an approximate coagulation equation of dust grains with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tetsuo Taki , Koh Kuwabara , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Takeru K. Suzuki

Context: There is increasing need for good algorithms for modeling the aggregation and fragmentation of solid particles (dust grains, dust aggregates, boulders) in various astrophysical settings, including protoplanetary disks, planetary-…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Zsom , C. P. Dullemond

We numerically model the evolution of dust in a protoplanetary disk using a two-phase (gas+dust) Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code, which is non-self-gravitating and locally isothermal. The code follows the three dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Maddison , L. Fouchet , J. -F. Gonzalez