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mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

A key problem in protoplanetary disc evolution is understanding the efficiency of dust radial drift. This process makes the observed dust disc sizes shrink on relatively short timescales, implying that discs started much larger than what we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Claudia Toci , Giovanni Rosotti , Giuseppe Lodato , Leonardo Testi , Leon Trapman

The size and density of dust grains determine their response to gas drag in protoplanetary discs. Aerodynamical (size x density) sorting is one of the proposed mechanisms to explain the grain properties and chemical fractionation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Francesco C. Pignatale , Jean-François Gonzalez , Nicolas Cuello , Bernard Bourdon , Caroline Fitoussi

Protoplanetary discs contain a wide range of dust sizes that influence their thermal structure and planet formation processes such as planetesimal formation and pebble accretion. Dust evolution models are therefore essential for both planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Thomas Pfeil , Nicolas Kaufmann , Vignesh Vaikundaraman

In most current debris disc models, the dynamical and the collisional evolutions are studied separately, with N-body and statistical codes, respectively, because of stringent computational constraints. We present here LIDT-DD, the first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quentin Kral , Philippe Thébault , Sébastien Charnoz

We consider the dynamics of dust and gas during the clearing of protoplanetary discs. We work within the context of a photoevaporation/viscous model for the evolution of the gas disc, and use a two-fluid model to study the dynamics of dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Alexander , P. J. Armitage

Dust growth is often neglected when building models of protoplanetary disks due to its complexity and computational expense. However, it does play a major role in shaping the evolution of protoplanetary dust and planet formation. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Joanna Drazkowska , Shengtai Li , Til Birnstiel , Sebastian M. Stammler , Hui Li

Circumstellar disks of gas and dust are naturally formed from contracting pre-stellar molecular cores during the star formation process. To study various dynamical and chemical processes that take place in circumstellar disks prior to their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Yaroslav N. Pavlyuchenkov

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 propose a new evolutionary process of protoplanetary disks "co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks", revealed by dust-gas two-fluid non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering the growth of dust and associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We study stability of a dust layer in a gaseous disc subject to the linear axisymmetric perturbations. Instead of considering single-size particles, however, the population of dust particles is assumed to consist of two grain species. Dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-15 Mohsen Shadmehri

We present the first 2D hydrodynamical finite volume simulations in which dust is fully coupled with the gas, including its back-reaction onto it, and at the same time the dust size is evolving according to coagulation and fragmentation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomas Tamfal , Joanna Drazkowska , Lucio Mayer , Clément Surville

Spatial distribution and growth of dust in a clumpy protoplanetary disk subject to vigorous gravitational instability and fragmentation is studied numerically with sub-au resolution using the FEOSAD code. Hydrodynamics equations describing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Vardan G. Elbakyan

The crucial initial step in planet formation is the agglomeration of micron-sized dust into macroscopic aggregates. This phase is likely to happen very early during the protostellar disc formation, which is characterised by active gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard Vorobyov , Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov , Olga Stoyanovskaya

We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag using our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code. We present the evolution of the dust spatial distribution in global simulations of planetless disks as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-François Gonzalez , Laure Fouchet , Sarah T. Maddison , Guillaume Laibe

Context: The global size and spatial distribution of dust is an important ingredient in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks and in the formation of larger bodies, such as planetesimals. Aims: We aim to derive simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 T. Birnstiel , H. Klahr , B. Ercolano

Small dust grains are essential ingredients of star, disk and planet formation. We present an Eulerian numerical approach to study small dust grains dynamics in the context of star and protoplanetary disk formation. It is designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Ugo Lebreuilly , Benoît Commerçon , Guillaume Laibe

Dust is known to drift and grow in protoplanetary discs, which results in dust segregation over the disc extent. Maps of the spectral index $\alpha$ are a common tool for studying the dust content in protoplanetary discs. The analysis of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov , Vitaly Akimkin , Dmitri Wiebe , Eduard Vorobyov

The thermal structure of a protoplanetary disc is regulated by the opacity that dust grains provide. However, previous works have often considered simplified prescriptions for the dust opacity in hydrodynamical disc simulations, e.g. by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Sofia Savvidou , Bertram Bitsch , Michiel Lambrechts

The rapid depletion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks limits the time available for planetesimal formation, as solids are typically accreted onto the central star before dust particles can undergo substantial growth. Dust traps…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 D. Tarczay-Nehéz
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