Instabilities and Structures in Proto-Planetary disks

Meeting

• Dates: 17th - 20th september 2012

• Location: Salle de l'Académie - Les Accoules - Marseille - France

• Rationale:

• The meeting will address the evolution of the protoplanetary disks at the decoupling stage. The goal is to focus on:
  • the possible formation of gaseous structures in the protoplanetary disks, particularly in the dead-zone, under various instabilities (baroclinic, or via Rossby or edge modes)
  • their lifetime and evolution (stability, migration, collisions ....),
  • their ability to capture the solid material and to survive once loaded.
• Emphasis will be placed on the hydrodynamical aspects of the problem, without and with self-gravity, but MHD processes will not be forgotten. We will look also at the links with the experimental and numerical works performed in the physics of rotating flows and granular media.

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