High-resolution models of the vertical shear instability

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Table 1

Previous studies and their models’ key properties, including the number of dimensions D, radial aspect ratio, number of grid points n per disc scale height H and azimuthal extent Δ φ.

Reference	nD	R_out/R_in	n per H	Δ φ
Stoll & Kley (2014)	2D	25	12	/
Stoll & Kley (2014)	3D	5	12	π/2
Richard et al. (2016)	3D	1.5	20^*	π/4
Manger & Klahr (2018)	3D	4	18	2 π
Flores-Rivera et al. (2020)	2D	10	203	/
Svanberg et al. (2022)	2D	30	12	/
Shariff & Umurhan (2024)	3D	2	74	2 π
Huang & Bai (2025a)	3D	3	240^†	2 π
Huang & Bai (2025b)	3D	3	30	π

Notes. *The resolution is very anisotropic. Here, we quote the resolution along z. ^†This resolution is achieved with adaptive mesh refinement only in a very small domain centred on the disc midplane.

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