Vertical Shear Instability in the Solar Nebula
Abstract
We quantify the thermodynamic requirement for the Vertical Shear Instability and evaluate its relevance to realistic protoplanetary disks as a potential route to hydrodynamic turbulence.
- Publication:
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Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131500589X
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1603.01615
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..314..195L
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- hydrodynamics;
- instabilities;
- methods: analytical;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- IAUS 314 proceedings, main paper arXiv:1505.02163