TriPoDPy: 1D Tri-Population size distributions forDust evolution in protoplanetary disks

TL;DR

TriPoDPy is a Python-Fortran code that models dust and gas evolution in protoplanetary disks, incorporating dust growth, dynamics, and compositional tracking in a one-dimensional radial framework.

Contribution

The paper introduces TriPoDPy, a novel simulation tool combining dust evolution and gas dynamics with tracers for compositional analysis in protoplanetary disks.

Findings

Efficient simulation of dust growth and dynamics in disks

Inclusion of tracers for dust and gas composition

Compatibility with alpha-disk models

Abstract

TriPoDPy is a code simulating the dust evolution, including dust growth and dynamics in protoplanetary disks using the parametric dust model presented in (Pfeil et al., 2024). The simulation evolves a dust distribution in a one-dimensional grid in the radial direction. It's written in Python and the core routines are implemented in Fortran90. The code not only solves for the evolution of the dust but also the gas disk with the canonical alpha-description (Shakura & Sunyaev, 1973). In addition to the original model, we added descriptions of tracers for the dust and gas, which could be used for compositional tracking of additional components.