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We perform helioseismic holography on realistic solar convection simulations and compare the observed travel-time perturbations with the expected travel times from the horizontal flows in the simulations computed from forward models under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-28 D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch , D. Benson , R. F. Stein , Å. Nordlund

Results of numerical 3D simulations of propagation of acoustic waves inside the Sun are presented. A linear 3D code which utilizes realistic OPAL equation of state was developed by authors. Modified convectively stable standard solar model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. V. Parchevsky , A. G. Kosovichev

Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youhei Masada , Kohei Yamada , Akira Kageyama

The goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

We present a statistical analysis of turbulent convection in stars within our Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) framework in spherical geometry which we derived from first principles. The primary results reported in this document…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Miroslav Mocák , Casey Meakin , Maxime Viallet , David Arnett

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

A magneto-hydrostatic model is constructed with spectropolarimetric properties close to those of solar photospheric magnetic bright points. Results of solar radiative magneto-convection simulations are used to produce the spatial structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan , D. B. Jess

We present a high-resolution, highly stratified numerical simulation of rotating thermal convection in a spherical shell. Our aim is to study in detail the processes that can maintain a near surface shear layer (NSSL) as inferred from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

We re-examine the deep-focus methodology of time-distance helioseismology previously used to estimate the power spectrum of the solar convection at a depth of about 30 Mm, which was found to be significantly weaker than predicted by theory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 John T. Stefan , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Gustavo Guerrero , Andrey M. Stejko

Understanding solar turbulent convection and its influence on differential rotation has been a challenge over the past two decades. Current models often overestimate giant convection cells amplitude, leading to an effective Rossby number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Quentin Noraz , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek

Solar granules are bright patterns surrounded by dark channels called intergranular lanes in the solar photosphere and are a manifestation of overshooting convection. Observational studies generally find stronger upflows in granules and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 T. Oba , T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki , Y. Iida , C. Quintero Noda , T. Shimizu

We present the first hydrodynamic, multi-dimensional simulations of He-shell flash convection. Specifically, we investigate the properties of shell convection at a time immediately before the He- luminosity peak during the 15th thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Falk Herwig , Bernd Freytag , Robert M. Hueckstaedt , Francis X. Timmes

Recent hydrodynamical simulations of convection in a solar-like model suggest that penetrative convective flows at the boundary of the convective envelope modify the thermal background in the overshooting layer. Based on these results, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Baraffe I , Constantino T , Clarke J , Le Saux A , Goffrey T , Guillet T , Pratt J , Vlaykov D. G

The advent of helioseismology has determined in detail the average rotation rate of the Sun as a function of radius and latitude. These data immediately reveal two striking boundary layers of shear in the solar convection zone (CZ): a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Loren I. Matilsky , Bradley W. Hindman , Juri Toomre

Understanding convection is important in stellar physics, for example as an input in stellar evolution models. Helioseismic estimates of convective flow amplitudes in deeper regions of the solar interior disagree by orders of magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Vincent G. A. Böning , Aaron C. Birch , Laurent Gizon , Thomas L. Duvall

We examine the role of stratification in determining the scale for turbulent anelastic convection. Motivated by the range of scales observed in convection at the solar photosphere, we perform local numerical simulations of convection for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 M. Kessar , D. W. Hughes , E. Kersale , K. A. Mizerski , S. M. Tobias

Supergranulation is a component of solar convection that manifests itself on the photosphere as a cellular network of around 35 Mm across, with a turnover lifetime of 1-2 days. It is strongly linked to the structure of the magnetic field.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter E. Williams , W. Dean Pesnell

The observed convective flows on the photosphere (e.g., supergranulation, granulation) play a key role in the Babcock-Leighton (BL) process to generate large-scale polar fields from sunspots fields. In most surface flux transport (SFT) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Gopal Hazra , Mark Miesch

Recent photometric observations of massive stars have identified a low-frequency power excess which appears as stochastic low-frequency variability in light curve observations. We present the oscillation properties of high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 William Thompson , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , Pavel Denissenkov , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon Blouin

Large-eddy simulations (LES) and implicit LES (ILES) are wise and affordable alternatives to the unfeasible direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers (Re). However, for systems with few observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 H. D. Nogueira , G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. G. Kosovichev
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