Numerical simulation of a planet interacting with a protoplanetary disk
圖片來源: Zhang, Yuan and Yen
Numerical simulation of a planet interacting with a protoplanetary disk (Zhang, Yuan and Yen, in preparation).
To investigate the formation and time evolution of planetary systems, we again resort to numerical simulation. Using Cartesian coordinates, the CFD-MHD group has studied the migration of Jupiter-mass planet in a self-gravitating minimum solar nebula disk. The picture shows the density distribution at the 40th orbit of the planet, which has gone through the Type I migration (embedded in the disk), in the middle of Type III migration (characterized by the presence of horse-shoe orbits), and on its way to Type II migration (with a clear gap).