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Martin's update, 7/17 '12

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New 10 AU disk mass plot shown along with mass flux out of the grid. The gradients are consistent: the disk mass decreases as the outwards mass flux increases. Thus during the first 3 disk orbits the wind removes a few 10% of the disk mass. It also makes sense that the effect is less significant in the 20 AU case (below); the disk is father away from the primary hence its wind has less ram pressure, by a factor of r^-1.
New 20 AU disk mass plot shown along with mass flux out of the grid. The gradients are also consistent.
New 20 AU angular momentum profiles vs disk radius and time. Trying to understand whether these plots are correct and if they tell us something about warping. There are 10 data points per orbit and per coordinate. The momenta are added on spherical shells centered at the secondary. Though our 20 AU disk is far from Keplerian, as shown by the streamline maps, j_z^Keplerian ~ r^½. The 1, 2 and 3 orbit j_z profiles (black ones, left panel) are proportional to r^~.9.

15 AU sim running again, up to .5 orbits and the disk has formed already. Should have the data by next week.

Teragrid proposal and magnetic tower paper submitted.

AGN jet truncation trying to get runs finished. May have some movies here by Tuesday the 17th.