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Recent progress in realistic simulations of solar convection have given us an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate the robustness of solar interior structures and dynamics obtained by methods of local helioseismology. We present results of…

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham

Molecular dynamics simulation has been used to model pattern formation in three-dimensional Rayleigh--Benard convection at the discrete-particle level. Two examples are considered, one in which an almost perfect array of hexagonally-shaped…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. C. Rapaport

The amplitude of solar p-mode oscillations is governed by stochastic excitation and mode damping, both of which take place in the surface convection zone. However, the time-dependent, turbulent nature of convection makes it difficult to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Yixiao Zhou , Martin Asplund , Remo Collet

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is numerically simulated in two- and three-dimensions using a recently developed two-component lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method. The density field of the second component, which evolves according to the…

comp-gas · Physics 2016-08-31 Xiaowen Shan

A set of bathymetry point clouds acquired by different measurement techniques at different times, having different accuracy and varying patterns of points, are approximated by an LR B-spline surface. The aim is to represent the sea bottom…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Vibeke Skytt , Quillon Harpham , Tor Dokken , Heidi E. I. Dahl

Supergranulation is characterized by horizontally divergent flows with typical length scales of 32 Mm in the solar photosphere. Unlike granulation, the size of which is comparable to both the thickness of the radiative boundary layer and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jean-Francois Cossette , Mark Peter Rast

In this work, a new collocation approach using a combination of a wavelet operational matrix method and the exponential spline interpolation is proposed to solve the time-fractional convection-diffusion equation with variable coefficients.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiaogang Zhu , Yufeng Nie

Using data from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), we study the large-scale velocity fields in the outer part of the solar convection zone using the ring diagram technique.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sarbani Basu , H. M. Antia

Tile B-splines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ are defined as autoconvolutions of the indicators of tiles, which are special self-similar compact sets whose integer translates tile the space $\mathbb{R}^d$. These functions are not piecewise-polynomial,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Tatyana Zaitseva

Multi-degree splines are piecewise polynomial functions having sections of different degrees. For these splines, we discuss the construction of a B-spline basis by means of integral recurrence relations, extending the class of multi-degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Carolina Vittoria Beccari , Giulio Casciola , Serena Morigi

Simulating deep solar convection and its coupled mean-field motions is a formidable challenge where few observational results constrain models that suffer from the non-physical influence of the grid resolution. We present hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 G. Guerrero , A. M. Stejko , A. G. Kosovichev , P. K Smolarkiewicz , A. Strugarek

We extend the volume of fluid method for the computation of two-phase flow to a higher order accurate method in two dimensions. The interface reconstruction by the PLIC method is thereby replaced by a periodic interface reconstruction. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-22 Joris Verschaeve

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

The differential rotation of the sun, as deduced from helioseismology, exhibits a prominent radial shear layer near the top of the convection zone wherein negative radial gradients of angular velocity are evident in the low- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. DeRosa , P. A. Gilman , J. Toomre

Differences between observed and theoretical eigenfrequencies of the Sun have characteristics which identify them as arising predominantly from properties of the oscillations in the vicinity of the solar surface: in the super-adiabatic,…

Excitation of solar-like oscillations is attributed to turbulent convection and takes place at the upper-most part of the outer convective zones. Amplitudes of these oscillations depend on the efficiency of the excitation processes as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-04 R. Samadi , K. Belkacem , M. -J. Goupil , F. Kupka , M. -A. Dupret

In this paper a numerical procedure to simulate low diffusivity scalar turbulence is presented. The method consists of using a grid for the advected scalar with a higher spatial resolutions than that of the momentum. The latter usually…

Convective turbulent motions in the solar interior, as well as the mean flows resulting from them, determine the evolution of the solar magnetic field. With the aim to get a better understanding of these flows we study anelastic rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. Kosovichev , N. Mansour

The solar interior is filled with turbulent thermal convection, which plays a key role in the energy and momentum transport and the generation of the magnetic field. The turbulent flows in the solar interior cannot be optically detected due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hiroyuki Masaki , Hideyuki Hotta