Fission of rapidly rotating fluid systems.
Abstract
Progress in understanding of the problem of fissional breakup of an equilibrium fluid system through the growth of dynamical distortional instabilities caused by rapid rotation is reviewed. Classic results on equilibrium states, stability, and routes to fission are reviewed, and the equilibrium states of uniformly rotating incompressible fluids, uniformly rotating polytropes, differentially rotating polytropes, rotating isothermal gas clouds, and nonisentropic fluids are discussed in detail. The Bardeen, Friedman, Schutz, and Sorkin (1977) criterion for linear stability in fission modes is considered along with the generic instability of rotating bodies and linear stability of fission modes in hydrodynamic simulations of fission are described in detail.
- Publication:
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Protostars and Planets II
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985prpl.conf..534D
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Fission;
- Rotating Fluids;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Celestial Bodies;
- Equilibrium;
- Hydrodynamics;
- Incompressible Fluids;
- Natural Satellites;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- Astrophysics;
- Close Binaries:Formation;
- Rotating Fluids:Hydrodynamics;
- Rotating Fluids:Instabilities;
- Rotating Fluids:Star Formation;
- Star Formation:Rotating Fluids