The linear and nonlinear dynamic stability of rotating N = 3/2 polytropes

Details The linear and nonlinear dynamic stability of rotating N = 3/2 polytropes The linear and nonlinear dynamic stability of rotating N = 3/2 polytropes

Nov 1985

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 298, Nov. 1, 1985, p. 220-234. Research supported by Louisiana State Univer

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Computer Programs, Dynamic Stability, Hydrodynamics, Rotating Fluids, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Models, Continuity Equation, Polytropic Processes, Stellar Gravitation, Stellar Rotation, Taylor Series, Virial Theorem

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A three-dimensional hydrodynamic computer program has been used to study the growth of nonaxisymmetric structure in rapidly rotating, n = 3/2 polytropes whose initial axisymmetric equilibria were constructed with the Ostriker-Mark, self-consistent field method. Differentially rotating models were studied, whose initial ratios t of rotational to gravitational potential energy were t = 0.28, 0.30, 0.33, and 0.35. An open, two-armed, trailing spiral pattern, rather than a coherent bar mode, has been found to grow dynamically in all models with t at least 0.30. The results of the investigation support the reliability of both the tensor virial equation (TVE) analysis of such systems and the computer simulation itself. The 3D code can be used with confidence to study the dynamical growth of nonaxisymmetric structure into the nonlinear amplitude regime.

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