Stability Analysis of a Keplerian Disk of Granular Grains: Influence of Thermal Diffusion

✍ Scribed by Frank Spahn; Jürgen Schmidt; Olaf Petzschmann; Heikki Salo

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 102 KB
• Volume: 145
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6379

✦ Synopsis

We extend the investigation of the viscous stability of a dense planetary ring by the effect of thermal diffusion of random kinetic energy. We find that this additional diffusive process has mainly a stabilizing effect on the overstable modes.