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=====Simplification for 2D, Axisymmetric Systems===== It is easy to show that this last expression for <math>~\Phi_B</math> — which has been used in our 3D simulations — is a ''generalization'' of the expression for <math>~\Phi_B</math> that was employed by [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975ApJ...199..619B Black & Bodenheimer (1975)] for 2D, axisymmetric simulations. In axisymmetric systems, by definition, physical variables exhibit no variation in the azimuthal coordinate direction. Hence, in the expression for <math>~\Phi_B</math>: * the azimuthal coordinate, <math>~\phi</math>, need not appear explicitly as an independent variable; * the index, <math>~m</math>, must be set to zero, so there is no summation over this index; and, * every surviving spherical harmonic can be written more simply in terms of a Legendre function, namely, <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~Y_{\ell m} \rightarrow Y_{\ell 0}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~\sqrt{\frac{(2\ell+1 )}{4\pi}} P_\ell(\chi) \, ,</math> </td> <td align="center"> where,</td> <td align="left"> <math>~\chi \equiv \frac{z}{(\varpi^2 + z^2)^{1 / 2}} \, .</math> </td> </tr> </table> </div> Note that the argument, <math>~\chi</math>, is still the spherical-coordinate expression, <math>~\cos\theta</math>, but here it has been written in terms of cylindrical coordinates. We have, therefore, <table border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~ \Phi_B(\varpi, z)\biggr|_{2D}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~ - G \sum_{\ell=0}^{\ell_\mathrm{max}} P_\ell(\chi) \biggl[ \varpi^2 + z^2 \biggr]^{-(\ell+1)/2} \int P_\ell(\chi^') \biggl[ (\varpi^')^2 + (z^')^2 \biggr]^{\ell/2} ~\rho(\varpi^', z^') d^3x^' \, , </math> </td> </tr> </table> where, <math>~d^3x^' = 2\pi \varpi^' d\varpi^' dz^'</math>. This is precisely the same as equation (5) from [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975ApJ...199..619B Black & Bodenheimer (1975)]; see also, equations (8) and (9) in [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...527...86C Cohl & Tohline (1999)].
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