Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 451, Issue 1, Pages 813-826Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv996
Keywords
hydrodynamics; methods: numerical; protoplanetary discs; dust, extinction; ISM: kinematics and dynamics
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Funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [FT130100034]
- European Research Council via FP7 ERC advanced grant project ECOGAL
- [DP1094585]
- [DP130102078]
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We describe a simple method for simulating the dynamics of small grains in a dusty gas, relevant to micron-sized grains in the interstellar medium and grains of centimetre size and smaller in protoplanetary discs. The method involves solving one extra diffusion equation for the dust fraction in addition to the usual equations of hydrodynamics. This ` diffusion approximation for dust' is valid when the dust stopping time is smaller than the computational timestep. We present a numerical implementation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics that is conservative, accurate and fast. It does not require any implicit timestepping and can be straightforwardly ported into existing 3D codes.
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