Hydrodynamical Simulations of Narrow Planetary Rings. I. Scaling

Icarus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 260-285

  Mosqueira, Ignacio ^a   Estrada, Paul R ^b   Brookshaw, Leigh ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary rings; Ring dynamics; Self gravity model; Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037553655     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6114     Document Type: Article

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