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Numerical Simulations of Fission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

R. H. Durisen
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Swain Hall West 319, Indiana UniuersityBloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A.
S. Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Swain Hall West 319, Indiana UniuersityBloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A.
R. Grabhorn
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Swain Hall West 319, Indiana UniuersityBloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Recent hydrodynamic simulations indicate that gravitational torques due to spirals arms suppress binary fission in rapidly rotating polytropic fluids.

Type
Joint Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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