The tensile strength of dust aggregates consisting of small elastic grains: constraints on the size of condensates in protoplanetary discs
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1641
Abstract: A consensus view on the formation of planetesimals is now exposed to a threat, since recent numerical studies on the mechanical properties of dust aggregates tend to dispute the conceptual picture that submicrometer-sized grains conglomerate… read more here.
Keywords: tensile strength; strength dust; dust aggregates; dust ... See more keywords