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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…
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…
Zombie Vortex Instability I: A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks
Philip Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +3
There is considerable interest in hydrodynamic instabilities in dead zones of protoplanetary disks as a mechanism for driving angular momentum transport and as a source of particle…
Self-Replicating Three-Dimensional Vortices in Neutrally-Stable Stratified Rotating Shear Flows
Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +1
A previously unknown instability creates space-filling lattices of 3D vortices in linearly-stable, rotating, stratified shear flows. The instability starts from an easily-excited c…