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Stability Analyses of PP Tori

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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As has been summarized in an accompanying chapter — also see our related detailed notes — we have been trying to understand why unstable nonaxisymmetric eigenvectors have the shapes that they do in rotating toroidal configurations. For any azimuthal mode, <math>~m</math>, we are referring both to the radial dependence of the distortion amplitude, <math>~f_m(\varpi)</math>, and the radial dependence of the phase function, <math>~\phi_m(\varpi)</math> — the latter is what the Imamura and Hadley collaboration refer to as a "constant phase locus." Some old videos showing the development over time of various self-gravitating "constant phase loci" can be found here; these videos supplement the published work of Woodward, Tohline & Hachisu (1994).

Here, we focus specifically on instabilities that arise in so-called (non-self-gravitating) Papaloizou-Pringle tori and will draw heavily from two publications: (1) Papaloizou & Pringle (1987), MNRAS, 225, 267The dynamical stability of differentially rotating discs.   III. — hereafter, PPIII — and (2) Blaes (1985), MNRAS, 216, 553Oscillations of slender tori.

PP III

Figure 2 extracted without modification from p. 274 of J. C. B. Papaloizou & J. E. Pringle (1987)

"The Dynamical Stability of Differentially Rotating Discs.   III"

MNRAS, vol. 225, pp. 267-283 © The Royal Astronomical Society

Figure 2 from PP III

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