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Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply embedded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Daniel Harsono , Ewine van Dishoeck , Simon Bruderer , Zhi-Yun Li , Jes Jorgensen

Simulation of the dynamics of dust-gas circumstellar discs is crucial in understanding the mechanisms of planet formation. The dynamics of small grains in the disc is stiffly coupled to the gas, while the dynamics of grown solids is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Tatiana A. Glushko , Nikolay V. Snytnikov , Valeriy N. Snytnikov

We study how well the complex gas velocity fields induced by massive spiral arms are modelled by the hydrodynamical simulations we used to constrain the dark matter fraction in nearby spiral galaxies (Kranz et al. 2001, 2003). More…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adrianne Slyz , Thilo Kranz , Hans-Walter Rix

We report the first three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations of protostellar collapse with and without Ohmic dissipation.We take into account many physical processes required to study star formation processes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kengo Tomida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Yasunori Hori , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuya Saigo

We present local simulations that verify the linear streaming instability that arises from aerodynamic coupling between solids and gas in protoplanetary disks. This robust instability creates enhancements in the particle density in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew Youdin , Anders Johansen

Aims: We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag in the presence of a planet. Our goal is twofold: to determine the spatial distribution of dust depending on grain size and planet mass, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Fouchet , S. T. Maddison , J. -F. Gonzalez , J. R. Murray

We analyse the performance of twelve different implementations of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) using seven tests designed to isolate key hydrodynamic elements of cosmological simulations which are known to cause the SPH algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Thacker , E. R. Tittley , F. R. Pearce , H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas

High-resolution imaging of some protoplanetary disks in scattered light reveals presence of the global spiral arms of significant amplitude, likely excited by massive planets or stellar companions. Assuming that these arms are density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Roman R. Rafikov

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

Recent years have shown many advances in our knowledge of the collisional evolution of protoplanetary dust. Based on a variety of dust-collision experiments in the laboratory, our view of the growth of dust aggregates in protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Carsten Güttler , Maya Krause , Ralf J. Geretshauser , Roland Speith , Jürgen Blum

The birth process of circumstellar disks remains poorly constrained due to observational and numerical challenges. Recent numerical works have shown that the small-scale physics, often wrapped into a sub-grid model, play a crucial role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon

Grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of circumstellar disks are often performed in the curvilinear coordinate system, in which the center of the computational domain coincides with the motionless star. However, the center of mass may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Zs. Regaly , E. Vorobyov

A highly favoured mechanism of planetesimal formation is collisional growth. Single dust grains, which follow gas flows in the protoplanetary disc, hit each other, stick due to van der Waals forces and form fluffy aggregates up to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ralf J. Geretshauser , Roland Speith , Carsten Güttler , Maya Krause , Jürgen Blum

Planet-disk interactions can produce kinematic signatures in protoplanetary disks. While recent observations have detected non-Keplerian gas motions in disks, their origins are still being debated. To explore this, we conduct 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Kan Chen , Ruobing Dong

We discuss a generalization of the classic Keplerian disk test problem allowing for both pressure and rotational support, as a method of testing astrophysical codes incorporating both gravitation and hydrodynamics. We argue for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

A complete and detailed knowledge of the structure of the gaseous component in protoplanetary discs is essential to the study of dust evolution during the early phases of pre-planetesimal formation. The aim of this paper is to determine if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Serena Arena , Jean-François Gonzalez

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in unmagnetized molecular clouds is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations from the prestellar core until the end of the main accretion phase. In collapsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We present simulations of the supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in a simulation domain of volume $(256\,{\rm pc})^3$ within which we resolve the formation of protostellar accretion disks and their stellar cores to spatial…

We model gas inflow patterns onto circumstellar disks and the evolution of the pseudodisk using three-dimensional resistive MHD simulations. Starting from a prestellar core without turbulence and with a misalignment between the initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Masahiro N. Machida , Shingo Hirano , Shantanu Basu

We use a 3D radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to investigate the formation and evolution of a young protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core. The simulation covers the first ${\sim}10~{\rm kyr}$ after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz