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The solar tachocline is a shear layer located at the base of the solar convection zone. The horizontal shear in the tachocline is likely turbulent, and it is often assumed that this turbulence would be strongly anisotropic as a result of…

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The paper is devoted to the study of natural convection and the formation of delamination in an incompressible liquid due to convective laminar flows in a closed region heated from the side. Weak, medium and intensive modes of stationary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-13 Alexey Fedyushkin

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

When a liquid film of colloidal solution consisting of particles of different sizes is dried on a substrate, the colloids often stratify, where smaller colloids are laid upon larger colloids. This phenomenon is counter intuitive because…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-20 Jiajia Zhou , Ying Jiang , Masao Doi

Wind tunnel experiments were conducted to study the impact of atmospheric stratification on flow and dispersion within and over a regular array of rectangular buildings. Three stable and two convective incoming boundary layers were tested…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Davide Marucci , Matteo Carpentieri

Doubly diffusive convection describes the fluid motion driven by the competition of temperature and salinity gradients diffusing at different rates. While the convective motions driven by these gradients usually occupy the entire domain,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-08 Paul M. Mannix , Cedric Beaume

Finding low-mass planets around solar-type stars requires to understand the physical variability of the host star, which greatly exceeds the planet-induced radial-velocity modulation. Different solar photospheric absorption lines have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Dainis Dravins , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Matthias Steffen , Carlos Allende Prieto , Lars Koesterke

We use direct numerical simulations to investigate the interaction between the temperature field of a fluid and the temperature of small particles suspended in the flow, employing both one and two-way thermal coupling, in a statistically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Maurizio Carbone , Andrew D. Bragg , Michele Iovieno

Patterns of convection in internally heated, self-gravitating rotating spherical fluid shells are investigated through numerical simulations. While turbulent states are of primary interest in planetary and stellar applications the present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-09 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

The breakdown of scale invariance in turbulent flows, known as multifractal scaling, is considered a cornerstone of turbulence. In solar wind turbulence, a monofractal behavior can be observed at electron scales, in contrast to larger…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier , Romain Meyrand

Thermal convection in a horizontal layer with uniform internal heating and stress-free constant-temperature boundaries is analyzed numerically. The work is motivated by the questions arising in development of liquid metal batteries, in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 Linyan Xiang , Oleg Zikanov

The onset of convection in a rapidly rotating layer in which a thermal wind is present is studied. Diffusive effects are included. The main motivation is from convection in planetary interiors, where thermal winds are expected due to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Robert J. Teed , Chris A. Jones , Rainer Hollerbach

We present a formalism for investigating the interaction between pmode oscillations and convection by analyzing realistic, three-dimensional simulations of the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone. By choosing suitable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Å. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

Double diffusive convection (DDC), which is the buoyancy driven flow with fluid density depending on two scalar components, is ubiquitous in many natural and engineering enviroments. Of great interests are scalers transfer rate and flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-17 Yantao Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We examine the linear behavior of three-dimensional Lagrangian displacements in a stratified, shearing background. The isentropic and iso-rotation surfaces of the equilibrium flow are assumed to be axisymmetric, but otherwise fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Steven A. Balbus , Emmanuel Schaan

A fluid between two spheres, concentric or not, at different temperatures will flow in the presence of a constant gravitational force. Although there is no possible hydrostatic state, energy transport is dominated by diffusion if…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-22 A. D. Gallegos , C. Malaga

Latitudinal variations in turbulent heat flux play a key role in the thermal and magnetic evolution of rapidly rotating planets and stars. Although global spherical-shell simulations have documented such variations, explicit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Veeraraghavan Kannan , Varghese Mathai , Xiaojue Zhu

In this work, we investigate the presence and impact of stable eigenmodes in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection that arises due to a temperature gradient within a fluid system. The nonlinear evolution of the canonical convection system is cast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-29 Zachary R. Williams , Ava G. Lowe

Phase separation of binary fluids quenched by contact with cold external walls is considered. Navier-Stokes, convection-diffusion, and energy equations are solved by lattice Boltzmann method coupled with finite-difference schemes. At high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Gonnella , A. Lamura , A. Piscitelli , A. Tiribocchi

Fingering double diffusive convection with real seawater properties is studied by two-dimensional direct numerical simulations for the wall-bounded domain and compared with the results for fully periodic domain. For fixed unstable salinity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-20 Junyi Li , Yantao Yang