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Streaming Instability With Multiple Dust Species-Ii. Turbulence And Dust-Gas Dynamics At Non-Linear Saturation, Chao-Chin Yang, Zhaohuan Zhu
Streaming Instability With Multiple Dust Species-Ii. Turbulence And Dust-Gas Dynamics At Non-Linear Saturation, Chao-Chin Yang, Zhaohuan Zhu
Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research
The streaming instability is a fundamental process that can drive dust-gas dynamics and ultimately planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs. As a linear instability, it has been shown that its growth with a distribution of dust sizes can be classified into two distinct regimes, fast-and slow-growth, depending on the dust-size distribution and the total dust-To-gas density ratio . Using numerical simulations of an unstratified disc, we bring three cases in different regimes into non-linear saturation. We find that the saturation states of the two fast-growth cases are similar to its single-species counterparts. The one with maximum dimensionless stopping time τs,max = …