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Vertical Shear Instability in the Solar Nebula

2015/11/01 by Min-Kai Lin, Andrew N. Youdin
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Formation and evolution of the Solar System #Gravitational instability #Instability #Protoplanetary disk #Shear (geology) #Solar System #Solar prominence #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.EP

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s174392131500589x

IAUS 314 proceedings, main paper arXiv:1505.02163

openalex publication_date 2015/11/01 · arxiv created 2016/03/04 · arxiv updated 2016/03/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

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.

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