A minimal model for vertical shear instability in protoplanetary accretion disks

DOI10.1080/03091929.2021.1941921zbMATH Open1482.85014arXiv2106.04617OpenAlexW3190492515WikidataQ114639980 ScholiaQ114639980MaRDI QIDQ3389714FDOQ3389714

Authors: Ron Yellin-Bergovoy, O. M. Umurhan, E. Heifetz 

Publication date: 23 March 2022

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Vertical Shear Instability is an axisymmetric effect suggested to drive turbulence in the magnetically inactive zones of protoplanetary accretion disks. Here we examine its physical mechanism in analytically tractable ``minimal models" in three settings that include a uniform density fluid, a stratified atmosphere, and a shearing-box section of a protoplanetary disk. Each of these analyses show that the vertical shear instability's essence is similar to the slantwise convective symmetric instability in the mid-latitude Earth atmosphere, in the presence of vertical shear of the baroclinic jet stream, as well as mixing in the top layers of the Gulf Stream. We show that in order to obtain instability the fluid parcels' slope should exceed the slope of the mean absolute momentum in the disk radial-vertical plane. We provide a detailed and mutually self-consistent physical explanation from three perspectives: in terms of angular momentum conservation, as a dynamical interplay between a fluid's radial and azimuthal vorticity components, and from an energy perspective involving a generalized Solberg-H{o}iland Rayleigh condition. Furthermore, we explain why anelastic dynamics yield oscillatory unstable modes and isolate the oscillation mechanism from the instability one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04617

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zbMATH Keywords

dead zoneshear instabilityprotoplanetary accretion disksslantwise convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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