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Turbulent convection models are thought to be good tools to deal with the convective overshooting in the stellar interior. However, they are too complex to be applied in calculations of stellar structure and evolution. In order to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Q. S. Zhang , Y. Li

We perform Large eddy simulations of turbulent compressible convection in stellar-type convection zones by solving the Navi\'{e}r-Stokes equations in three dimensions. We estimate the extent of penetration into the stable layer above a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Partha S. Pal , Harinder P. Singh , Kwing L. Chan , M. P. Srivastava

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Schröttle , D. L. Suhas , N. Harnik , J. Sukhatme

The interpretation of single-point spacecraft measurements of solar wind turbulence is complicated by the fact that the measurements are made in a frame of reference in relative motion with respect to the turbulent plasma. The Taylor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. G. Howes , K. G. Klein , J. M. TenBarge

The problem of the turbulent thermal convection in the Earth's liquid core is considered. Following assumptions on decreasing of the spatial scales due to the rapid rotation, we propose the subgrid model of the eddy diffusivity, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reshetnyak , B. Steffen

Adiabatic modeling of solar-like oscillations cannot exceed a certain level of precision for fitting individual frequencies. This is known as the problem of near surface effects on the mode physics. We present a theoretical study which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Grigahcène , M. -A. Dupret , S. G. Sousa , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , R. Garrido , R. Scuflaire , M. Gabriel

Convection in the solar interior is thought to comprise structures on a spectrum of scales. This conclusion emerges from phenomenological studies and numerical simulations, though neither covers the proper range of dynamical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shravan Hanasoge , Thomas L. Duvall , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Context: The paradigm of convection in solar-like stars is questioned based on recent solar observations. Aims: The primary aim is to study the effects of surface-driven entropy rain on convection zone structure and flows. Methods:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 P. J. Käpylä

It is shown that correlation function of the mean wind velocity in a turbulent thermal convection (Rayleigh number $Ra \sim 10^{11}$) exhibits exponential decay with a very long correlation time, while corresponding largest Lyapunov…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-25 A. Bershadskii

The inner-outer interaction model (Marusic, Mathis & Hutchins, Science, vol. 329, 2010, 193-196) and the attached-eddy model (Townsend, Cambridge University Press, 1976) are two fundamental models describing the multi-scale turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Cheng Cheng , Lin Fu

The first paper of this series established a linear stochastic wave equation for solar-like p-modes, correctly taking the effect of turbulence thereon into account. In this second paper, we aim at deriving simultaneous expressions for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 J. Philidet , K. Belkacem , M. -J. Goupil

We propose a novel one-dimensional model that includes both shock and turbulence heating and qualify how these processes contribute to heating the corona and driving the solar wind. Compressible MHD simulations allow us to automatically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Takeru K. Suzuki

Computed flame motion through and between swirling eddys exhibits a maximum advancement rate which is related to the time duration of flame motion between eddys. This eddy spatial structure effect upon the apparent turbulent flame speed…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Wm. T. Ashurst

The value of the effective convective viscosity, in the framework of the mixing length theory (MLT), is 2 orders of magnitude too small compared to that required by the observational data. Moreover, the reduction of the effective viscosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Itzhak Goldman

Solar inertial modes are quasi-toroidal modes of the Sun that are of practical interest as they allow probing the deep convection zone. Since 2010, solar images of the photospheric magnetic field are made available by HMI onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Neelanchal Joshi , Zhi-Chao Liang , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

The interaction between equilibrium tides and convection in stellar envelopes is often considered important for tidal evolution in close binary and extrasolar planetary systems. Its efficiency for fast tides has however long been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Adrian J. Barker , Aurélie A. V. Astoul

Excitation of solar oscillations is attribued to turbulent motions in the solar convective zone. It is also currently believed that oscillations of low massive stars (M <2 Mo) - which possess an upper convective zone - are stochastically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reza Samadi

The rotational influence on the eddy-diffusivity tensor D_ij for anisotropic turbulence fields is considered in order to explain the lithium decay law during the spin-down process of solar-type stars. Rotation proves to be highly effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Rudiger , V. V. Pipin

The meridional circulation of the Sun, which is observed to be poleward at the surface, should have a return flow at some depth. Since large-scale flows like the differential rotation and the meridional circulation are driven by turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-24 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Motivated by the need to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of turbulence in wall-bounded flows, we study wavenumber-frequency spectra of the streamwise velocity component based on large-eddy simulation (LES) data. The LES data are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael Wilczek , Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Charles Meneveau