Forming planetesimals by Gravitational instability. I. the role of the Richardson number in triggering the kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 718, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1367-1377

  Lee, Aaron T ^a   Chiang, Eugene ^a   Asay Davis, Xylar ^b   Barranco, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Instabilities; Planets and satellites: formation; Protoplanetary disks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049510437     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/1367     Document Type: Article

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