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Strong Toroidal Recirculation Zones at the Inner Dust Rim as the Origin of Meteoric Chondrules and Calcium-Aluminum Inclusions
Peter Todd Williams
We hypothesize strong (transonic) twin toroidal recirculation zones above and below the accretion disk midplane, rather close-in to the protosun, to be the source of chondrules and…
The Salinas Reactive-Flow Rate Model
Peter Todd Williams
We present the model Salinas and discuss its results in modeling corner-turning behavior, including failure and the formation of dead zones. Salinas is a recent reactive-flow model…
Can Hyperbolic Diffusion Help Explain Sharp Edges in the Gaps in Saturn's Rings?
Peter Todd Williams
We explore whether hyperbolic diffusion may help explain sharp edges in the gaps in Saturn's rings. Sharp edges are conventionally understood to be due to angular momentum flux rev…
A Simple Reactive-Flow Model for Corner-Turning in Insensitive High Explosives, Including Failure and Dead Zones. I. The Model
Peter Todd Williams
I report on a novel simple reactive-flow model that captures corner-turning behaviour, including failure and the creation of dead zones, in insensitive solid heterogeneous high exp…
Turbulence, Accretion Braking Torques and Efficient Jets Without Magnetocentrifugal Acceleration: Core Concepts
Peter Todd Williams
I discuss three mutually-supportive notions or assumptions regarding jets and accretion. The first is magnetocentrifugal acceleration (MCA), the overwhelmingly favored mechanism fo…
Local hydrodynamics and operator stability of Keplerian accretion disks
Peter Todd Williams
We discuss non-self-gravitating hydrodynamic disks in the thin disk limit. These systems are stable according to the Rayleigh criterion, and yet there is some evidence that the dis…