Table A.1:
List of symbols.
 |
relative velocity |
 |
surface density |
 |
angular (Keplerian) rotation frequency |
A |
geometrical cross-section (1 particle) |
C |
collision rate |
E |
collision energy |
 |
energy limits for particle restructuring/ maximum-compression/ fragmentation |
 |
gas/particle scale height |
K |
collision kernel |
N |
number of monomers (Sect. 2); number of particles (Sect. 3) |
 |
number of contacts |
 |
number of distinct particles (number of species) |
R |
heliocentric radius |
Re |
Reynolds number |
T |
temperature |
 |
particle/simulated volume |
 |
turbulent viscosity parameter |
 |
critical displacement |
 |
specific surface energy |
 |
area-mass exponent (
)
in fractal regime |
 |
number of coagulations |
 |
reduced mass |
 |
molecular/turbulent viscosity |
 |
enlargement parameter |
 |
dust/gas/specific density |
 |
collision cross-section |
 |
friction time |
 |
friction time at which particles are removed from simulation due to rain-out |
a/a0 |
radius (size)/monomer size |
 |
thermal sound speed |
gi |
number population of species i. |
 |
Boltzmann constant |
 |
eddy length scale |
m |
mass |
f |
particle distribution function (number density spectrum) |
r |
random deviate |
t |
time |
 |
turn-over timescale of smallest/largest eddy |
v |
velocity |
 |
velocity smallest/largest eddies |