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Previous studies have discovered a population of small granules with diameters less than 800 km showing differing physical properties. High resolution simulations and observations of the solar granulation, in combination with automated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Birgit Lemmerer , Arnold Hanslmeier , Herbert Muthsam , Isabell Piantschitsch

Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an investigation of granular dynamical motions of full length…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Liu Yanxiao , Jiang Chaowei , Yuan Ding , Zuo Pingbing , Wang Yi , Cao Wenda

We present a numerical simulation of a granular material using hydrodynamic equations. We show that, in the absence of external forces, such a system phase-separates into high density and low density regions. We show that this separation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hill , Gene F. Mazenko

In the surface layers of late-type stars, stellar convection is manifested with its typical granulation pattern due to the presence of convective motions. The resulting photospheric up- and downflows leave imprints in the observed spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-30 Zazralt Magic , Martin Asplund

Continued progress in observational stellar astrophysics requires a deep understanding of the underlying convection dynamics. We present results of realistic 3D radiative hydrodynamic simulations of the outer layers of a moderate mass star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Nagi N. Mansour , Alan A. Wray

We apply time-distance helioseismology, local correlation tracking and Fourier spatial-temporal filtering methods to realistic supergranule scale simulations of solar convection and compare the results with high-resolution observations from…

I represent results three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar surface convection on scales local supergranulation with realistic model physics. I study thermal structure of convective motions in photosphere, the range of convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Ustyugov

Supergranules are convection cells seen at the Sun's surface as a space filling pattern of horizontal flows. While typical supergranules have diameters of about 35 Mm, they exhibit a broad spectrum of sizes from ~10 Mm to ~100 Mm. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 David H. Hathaway

We present high resolution ($1024^3$) simulations of super-/hyper-sonic isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence inside an interstellar molecular cloud (resolving scales of typically 20 -- 100 AU), including a multi-disperse population of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Lars Mattsson , Akshay Bhatnagar , Fred A. Gent , Beatriz Villarroel

The global scales of solar convection are studied through three-dimensional simulations of compressible convection carried out in spherical shells of rotating fluid which extend from the base of the convection zone to within 15 Mm of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark S. Miesch , Allan Sacha Brun , Marc L. Derosa , Juri Toomre

Regions of quiet Sun generally exhibit a complex distribution of small-scale magnetic field structures, which interact with the near-surface turbulent convective motions. Furthermore, it is probable that some of these magnetic fields are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Paul J. Bushby , Benjamin Favier

We produce a 10-day series of simulated Doppler images at a 15-minute cadence that reproduces the spatial and temporal characteristics seen in the SOHO/MDI Doppler data. Our simulated data contains a spectrum of cellular flows with but two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 David H. Hathaway , Peter E. Williams , Manfred Cuntz

Exploding granules on the solar surface play a major role in the dynamics of the outer part of the convection zone, especially in the diffusion of the magnetic field. We aim to develop an automated procedure able to investigate the location…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 J. Ballot , T. Roudier

We model the solar horizontal velocity power spectrum at scales larger than granulation using a two-component approximation to the mass continuity equation. The model takes four times the density scale height as the integral (driving) scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. W. Lord , R. H. Cameron , M. P. Rast , M. Rempel , T. Roudier

A two-dimensional, transient, multi-scale modeling approach is presented for predicting the magnitude and rate of percolation segregation for binary mixtures of granular material in a rotating drum and conical hopper. The model utilizes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-08 Yu Liu , Marcial Gonzalez , Carl Wassgren

When polydisperse granular systems are sheared, the transverse dynamics is characterized by the interplay of size segregation and diffusion. Segregation in nonuniform and confined shearing flows is studied using annular shear cell…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-29 Santiago Caro , Riccardo Artoni , Patrick Richard , Michele Larcher , James T. Jenkins

Predicting particle segregation has remained challenging due to the lack of a general model for the segregation velocity that is applicable across a range of granular flow geometries. Here, a segregation velocity model for dense granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Yifei Duan , Lu Jing , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

Solar granulation consists of dynamic convective plasma cells that rise from the solar interior to the surface. The interaction between these plasma cells and the Sun's magnetic field provides valuable insights into plasma dynamics near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 J. I. Campos Rozo , J. Jurčák , S. M. Díaz Castillo , M. van Noort

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

Recently it was shown that self-organized criticality is an important ingredient of the dynamics of cumulus clouds (Physical Review E, 103(5), p.052106, 2021). Here we introduce a new algorithm to simulate cumulus clouds in two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 J. Cheraghalizadeh , M. Luković , M. N. Najafi
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