2 papers
astro-ph.SR2018
Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping
Joseph Barranco, Suyang Pei, Philip Marcus
The Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) occurs in the dead zones of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) where perturbations excite baroclinic critical layers, generating "zombie" vortices and…
astro-ph.SR2016
Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks
Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +1
In Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI), perturbations excite critical layers in stratified, rotating shear flow (as in protoplanetary disks), causing them to generate vortex layers, wh…