Jekyll2026-04-16T05:32:09-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/feed.xmlPFITS+Theoretical and computational research into protoplanetary disk evolution, planet formation, and the multiscale physics involvedPFITS+Accepted for Publication in ApJ Letters2024-06-24T02:00:00-06:002024-06-24T02:00:00-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/publications/pub-apjl-lyraWladimir Lyra, Chao-Chin Yang, Jacob B. Simon, Orkan M. Umurhan, Andrew N. Youdin, Rapid protoplanet formation in vortices: three-dimensional local simulations with selfgravity, The Astrophysical Journal Letters.]]>PFITS+HECC Annual Report Selected Achievement2022-06-28T02:00:00-06:002022-06-28T02:00:00-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/press/nasa-fy21-hecc-reportCongratulations to Chao-Chin Yang and Stanley A. Baronett for having their work “Following Gravitational Collapse of Forming Planetesimals” highlighted in NASA’s High-End Compution Capability (HECC) Annual FY21 Report (Slide 44).]]>PFITS+1st TCAN Workshop: Planets in the Desert2022-06-03T11:00:00-06:002022-06-03T11:00:00-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/conferences/conf-tcan-1-articleThis week, NMSU hosted Planets in the Desert, the 1st in a series of workshops for the TCAN collaboration.
The meeting agenda included a series of presentations and discussions on the streaming instability and goals to perform and compare codes and simulations of the dust and gas drag instabilities in accretion disks.
See How did the Earth come to be?, a short writeup in the Las Cruces, New Mexico, local news.]]>PFITS+NASA@SC21 Virtual Exhibit2021-11-16T01:00:00-07:002021-11-16T01:00:00-07:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/press/nasa-sc21Congratulations to Stanley A. Baronett and Chao-Chin Yang for exhibiting their work at NASA@SC21.]]>PFITS+Nevada NASA Space Grant Fellowship2021-08-31T02:00:00-06:002021-08-31T02:00:00-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/awards/nvsgc-grof-baronettCongratulations to Stanley A. Baronett for being awarded a Nevada NASA Space Grant ConsortiumGraduate Research Opportunity Fellowship.]]>PFITS+TCAN Proposal Awarded Funding2020-09-29T02:00:00-06:002020-09-29T02:00:00-06:00https://pfitsplus.github.io/awards/fund-award-tcanCongratulations to Wladimir Lyra, Chao-Chin Yang, Jacob B. Simon, Orkan M. Umurhan, and Andrew N. Youdin for NASA and NSF selecting their joint-proposal, entitled Dynamical instabilities in the aid of planet formation in circumstellar disks, for funding as part of the Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks (TCAN) Program, representing the following institutions: