Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-05-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:529-558,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
32 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10488.x
We perform numerical simulations of a disc-planet system using various grid-based and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) codes. The tests are run for a simple setup where Jupiter and Neptune mass planets on a circular orbit open a gap in a protoplanetary disc during a few hundred orbital periods. We compare the surface density contours, potential vorticity and smoothed radial profiles at several times. The disc mass and gravitational torque time evolution are analyzed with high temporal resolution. There is overall consistency between the codes. The density profiles agree within about 5% for the Eulerian simulations while the SPH results predict the correct shape of the gap although have less resolution in the low density regions and weaker planetary wakes. The disc masses after 200 orbital periods agree within 10%. The spread is larger in the tidal torques acting on the planet which agree within a factor 2 at the end of the simulation. In the Neptune case the dispersion in the torques is greater than for Jupiter, possibly owing to the contribution from the not completely cleared region close to the planet.
Artymowicz Pawel
Ciecielag Pawel
Cresswell Paul
D'Angelo Gennaro
Delgado-Donate E. J.
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