Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 46, 2013
Instabilities and Structures in Proto-Planetary Disks
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Article Number | 07002 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Vortices and Self-Gravity | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134607002 | |
Published online | 11 April 2013 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134607002
Interlaced dynamics of density waves and vortices in self-gravitating Discs
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Tbilisi State
University, Il. Chavchavadze ave.
3, Tbilisi
0179,
Georgia
a e-mail: george.mamatsashvili@tsu.ge
Latest developments in the dynamics of density waves and vortices in selfgravitating protoplanetary discs is reviewed. It is well established by now that in discs, vortices are dynamically coupled with density waves due to the disc’s differential rotation, or shear. On the other hand, density waves play a central role in the theory of self-gravitating discs and recently revealed their coupling with vortices implies that the latter can also be subject to self-gravity effects, thus taking active part in defining overall dynamics of self-gravitating discs. We describe the specific features of vortex dynamics and evolution in self-gravitating discs with and without driving by baroclinic or Rossby wave instabilities and point out differences between these two case.
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