Zombie Instabilities in Stars and Planets

Relevant Research:

Joseph A. Barranco, Suyang Pei, Philip S. Marcus (2018) Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping, The Astrophysical Journal 869(2), p. 127, pdf, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaec80

Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Joseph A. Barranco (2016) Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks, The Astrophysical Journal 833(2), p. 148, pdf, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/148

Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Joseph A. Barranco, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Daniel Lecoanet (2015) Zombie Vortex Instability. I. A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks, The Astrophysical Journal 808(1), p. 87, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/87

Abstracts

Philip S. Marcus, Joseph A. Barranco, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang (2016) Zombie Turbulence and More in Stratified Couette Flow, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. D35–003, url

Joseph A. Barranco, Suyang Pei, Philip S. Marcus, Chung-Hsiang Jiang (2015) Zombie Vortex Instability: Effects of Non-uniform Stratification & Thermal Cooling, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. R30–002, url

Meng Wang, Patrick Huerre, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Suyang Pei, Maryann Rui, Philip S. Marcus (2015) Baroclinic Critical Layers and the Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) in Stratified, Rotating Shear Flows: Where They Form and Why, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L30–002, url

Meng Wang, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Philip S. Marcus (2014) The Zombie Instability: Using Numerical Simulation to Design a Laboratory Experiment, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. A22-009, pdf

Joseph A. Barranco, Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Daniel Lecoanet (2014) Zombie Vortices: Angular Momentum Transport and Planetesimal Formation, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. E17-005, pdf

Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Joseph A. Barranco, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Daniel Lecoanet (2014) Zombie Vortices: The Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks are Not Dead, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. E17-004, pdf

Suyang Pei, Philip S. Marcus, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Daniel Lecoanet, Joseph A. Barranco (2013) Noise and Turbulence Generate 3D Zombie Vortices in Stably Stratified Rotating Shear Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. M1-009, pdf

Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Suyang Pei, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Aaron F. Wienkers, Caleb Levy, Philip S. Marcus (2013) The role of interactions between waves and baroclinic critical layers in zombie vortex self-replication, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L32-003, pdf