Acoustic Resonant Drag Instability: Long-Wavelength Case


This is the “acoustic” RDI again: now gas is at left (log of density in colors as labeled), with a broad spectrum of grain sizes on right (purple = smallest, yellow = largest). The view is “face on” and we are looking at the very long-wavelength instabilities, which generate large-scale crests and shocks that slam into each other.

© Philip Hopkins 2015