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This letter expands the stability criterion for radially stratified, vertically {unstratified} accretion disks incorporating thermal relaxation. We find a linear amplification of epicyclic oscillations in these disks that depends on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hubert Klahr , Alexander Hubbard

By employing the equations of mean-square vorticity (enstrophy) fluctuations in strong shear flows, we demonstrate that unlike energy production of turbulent vorticity in nonrotating shear flows, the turbulent vorticity of weak convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pin-Gao Gu

Theoretical and numerical studies have shown that large-scale vortices in Protoplanetary discs can result from various hydrodynamical instabilities. Once produced, such vortices can survive nearly unchanged over a large number of rotation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Steven Rendon Restrepo , Pierre Barge

Rossby wave instabilities (RWIs) usually lead to nonaxisymmetric vortices in protoplanetary discs and some observed sub-structures of these discs can be well explained by RWIs. We explore how the cooling influences the growth rate of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Shunquan Huang , Cong Yu

(abridged) We study the nonlinear evolution of the Rossby wave instability in thin disks using global 2D hydrodynamic simulations. The key questions we are addressing in this paper are: (1) What happens when the instability becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , S. A. Colgate , B. Wendroff , R. Liska

In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of intermediate size solids toward the central star may prevent their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Meheut , R. Keppens , F. Casse , W. Benz

We study the Kelvin mode excitations on a vortex line in a three-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. Our stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii simulations show that the activation of these modes can be suppressed by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-05 S. J. Rooney , P. B. Blakie , B. P. Anderson , A. S. Bradley

We present a simplified model for linearized perturbations in a fluid with both differential rotation and differential vorticity. Without the latter the model reduces to the classical Shearing Sheet used in the description of spiral density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michel Tagger

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

Cold atoms experiments offer invaluable information on superfluid dynamics, including decay cascades of topological defects. While the cascade properties are well established for Bose systems, our understanding of their behavior in Fermi…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-27 Gabriel Wlazłowski , Kazuyuki Sekizawa , Maciej Marchwiany , Piotr Magierski

Horseshoe-shaped brightness asymmetries of several transitional discs are thought to be caused by large-scale vortices. Anticyclonic vortices are efficiently collect dust particles, therefore they can play a major role in planet formation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Zs. Regaly , E. Vorobyov

We investigate the decay of vortices in a rotating cylindrical sample of 3He-B, after rotation has been stopped. With decreasing temperature vortex annihilation slows down as the damping in vortex motion, the mutual friction dissipation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-23 R. E. Solntsev , R. de Graaf , V. B. Eltsov , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius

We discuss the physics of vortices in the circumstellar disks associated with young stellar objects. We elucidate the basic physical properties of these localized storm systems. In particular, we consider point vortices, linear vortices,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Fred Adams , Richard Watkins

We study numerically some possible vortex configurations in a rotating cylinder that is tilted with respect to the rotation axis and where different numbers of vortices can be present at given rotation velocity. In a long cylinder at small…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-04 R. Hänninen

Gas rich dusty circumstellar discs observed around young stellar objects are believed to be the birthplace of planets and planetary systems. Recent observations revealed that large-scale horseshoe-like brightness asymmetries are present in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Rozgonyi , Zs. Regály

Vortices are one of the most promising mechanisms to locally concentrate millimeter dust grains and allow the formation of planetesimals through gravitational collapse. The outer disk around the binary system HD 142527 is known for its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Y. Boehler , F. Ménard , C. M. T. Robert , A. Isella , C. Pinte , J. -F. Gonzalez , G. van der Plas , E. Weaver , R. Teague , H. Garg , H. Méheut

Theoretical considerations are made of superfluid turbulence in the Kelvin wave cascade regime at low temperatures (T < 1K) and length scales of the order or smaller than the intervortical distance. The energy spectrum is shown to be in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

Hydrodynamic, non-magnetic instabilities can provide turbulent stress in the regions of protoplanetary discs, where the MRI can not develop. The induced motions influence the grain growth, from which formation of planetesimals begins.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. G. Malygin , H. Klahr , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , C. P. Dullemond

Past computational studies of planet-induced vortices have shown that the dust asymmetries associated with these vortices can be long-lived enough that they should be much more common in mm/sub-mm observations of protoplanetary discs, even…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Michael Hammer , Min-Kai Lin

Observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed the presence of both crescent-shaped and ring-like structures in dust continuum emission. These crescents are thought to arise from dust-trapping vortices generated by the Rossby Wave…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Xiaoyi Ma , Pinghui Huang , Cong Yu , Ruobing Dong