Study of the influence of computational parameters on the formation of a giant gaseous planet

Abstract

Today, computational simulatios are the best method to describe the formation of our Solar System, however this kind of simulations contain numerical errors caused by boundary conditions and choises of the grid, for instance. In this paper we will present results from several hidrodynamical simulations of the formation of a planet like Jupiter able to migrate using different computational parameters. We will compare the density profile, the semimajor axis and the eccentricity of the planet for those different parameters and measure the effect of them. We will not extend our results for planets with initial eccentric orbits in this paper.