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In this paper we have determined the initial structures of gas giant protoplanets, formed via disk instability, having a mass range of 0.3-10 Jupiter masses by the simple polytropic method. The polytropic protoplanets or polytropes have been assumed to be spheres of solar composition, each of which is in a steady state of quasi-static equilibrium, where the only source of energy is the gravitational contraction of the gas. The results of our calculations for the polytropes with polytropic indices n = 1 and n = 1.5 are found to be closer to reality and are in good agreement with the findings obtained by other investigations with more rigorous treatment of the problem.ª 2014 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf

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Dust grain growth and settling time inside initial gaseous giant protoplanets in the mass range 0.3 to 5 Jovian masses, formed by gravitational instability, have been investigated. We have determined the distribution of thermodynamic and physical variables inside the protoplanets solving the structure equations assuming their gas blobs to be fully convective and with this distribution we have calculated growth and settling time of grains with different initial sizes (10 −2 cm ≤ r 0 ≤ 1 cm). The results of our calculations are found to be in good agreement with those obtained by different approaches.