Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.0908b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #09.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1164
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Spiral shocks, for most protoplanetary disk conditions, create a loss of vertical force balance in the post-shock region and result in rapid expansion of the gas perpendicular to the disk midplane. This expansion has characteristics similar to hydraulic-jumps, which occur in incompressible fluids. We present a theory to describe the behavior of these hydraulic/shock-jump hybrids (hs-jumps) and then compare the theory to three-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations. We discuss the fully three-dimensional shock structures that hs-jumps produce and discuss possible consequences of hs-jumps for disk mixing, turbulence, and evolution of solids.
A. C. B. was supported in part by an Indiana Space Grant Consortium fellowship and a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship; R. H. D. was supported in part by NASA grants NAGS-11964 and NNG05GN11G.
Boley Aaron C.
Durisen Richard H.
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