| 5 | | On the left side is a plot of a zoomed in section of the BE sphere (sink formation is at frame = 96). You can see the density compression wave converging on the center. In the right panel are the sinks. At first one forms, then a next, and a next, to a multitude. This is not what we'd expect. What we should expect is exact symmetry: at the center of the collapsing sphere a sink should form, stay stationary, and accrete the surrounding envelope. My assumption is that this is not happening because we are modeling a quadrant of the sphere-- to be at the center of the sphere, a sink would have to form a long the vertex of the center-most cell. |
| | 5 | On the left side is a plot of a zoomed in section of the BE sphere (sink formation is at frame = 96). You can see the density compression wave converging on the center. In the right panel are the sinks. At first one forms, then a next, and a next, to a multitude. This is not what we'd expect. What we should expect is exact symmetry: at the center of the collapsing sphere a sink should form, stay stationary, and accrete the surrounding envelope. My assumption is that this is not happening because we are modeling a quadrant of the sphere-- to be at the center of the sphere, a sink would have to form along the vertex of the center-most cell. |
