Evaporation and compaction of colliding dust clusters at different impact parameters

Authors

  • Jacob Magtibay Gomez ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Francis N. C. Paraan ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

The dynamics of colliding dust clusters is important in the study of dust cloud evolution. In this work, a molecular dynamics simulation of the collision of two spherical clusters of SiO2 particles was done to find out how the evaporation fraction depends on impact parameter. By measuring the average number of neighbors each unevaporated grain has, we found a critical impact parameter that results in maximum cluster compaction.

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Article ID

SPP-2019-PB-21

Section

Poster Session PB

Published

2019-05-26

How to Cite

[1]
JM Gomez and FNC Paraan, Evaporation and compaction of colliding dust clusters at different impact parameters, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 37, SPP-2019-PB-21 (2019). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2019-PB-21.