Numerical Simulations of Highly Porous Dust Aggregates in the Low-Velocity Collision Regime

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2010-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1001.1617v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A highly favoured mechanism of planetesimal formation is collisional growth. Single dust grains, which follow gas flows in the protoplanetary disc, hit each other, stick due to van der Waals forces and form fluffy aggregates up to centimetre size. The mechanism of further growth is unclear since the outcome of aggregate collisions in the relevant velocity and size regime cannot be investigated in the laboratory under protoplanetary disc conditions. Realistic statistics of the result of dust aggregate collisions beyond decimetre size is missing for a deeper understanding of planetary growth. Joining experimental and numerical efforts we want to calibrate and validate a computer program that is capable of a correct simulation of the macroscopic behaviour of highly porous dust aggregates. After testing its numerical limitations thoroughly we will check the program especially for a realistic reproduction of various benchmark experiments. We adopt the smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical scheme with extensions for the simulation of solid bodies and a modified version of the Sirono porosity model. Experimentally measured macroscopic material properties of silica dust are implemented. We calibrate and test for the compressive strength relation and the bulk modulus. SPH has already proven to be a suitable tool to simulate collisions at rather high velocities. In this work we demonstrate that its area of application can not only be extended to low-velocity experiments and collisions. It can also be used to simulate the behaviour of highly porous objects in this velocity regime to a very high accuracy.The result of the calibration process in this work is an SPH code that can be utilised to investigate the collisional outcome of porous dust in the low-velocity regime.

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