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We performed 3D hydrodynamic simulations of the inner $\approx 50\%$ radial extent of a $25\ \mathrm{M_\odot}$ star in the early phase of the main sequence and investigate core convection and internal gravity waves in the core-envelope…

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We perform three dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations of the structure and dynamics of radiation dominated envelopes of massive stars at the location of the iron opacity peak. One dimensional hydrostatic calculations predict an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yan-Fei Jiang , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Omer Blaes

Radiative hydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar surface convection have become an important tool for exploring the structure and gas dynamics in the envelopes and atmospheres of late-type stars and for improving our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Beeck , R. Collet , M. Steffen , M. Asplund , R. H. Cameron , B. Freytag , W. Hayek , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Schüssler

We perform 2D, fully compressible, time-implicit simulations of convection in a solar-like model with the MUSIC code. Our main motivation is to explore the impact of a common tactic adopted in numerical simulations of convection that use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Baraffe , J. Pratt , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Guillet , T. Goffrey , A. Le Saux , T. Constantino

We investigate simulated turbulent flow within thermally driven stellar convection zones. Different driving sources are studied, including cooling at the top of the convectively unstable region, as occurs in surface convection zones; and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Casey Meakin , David Arnett

In this paper we describe our convective hydrocodes for radial stellar pulsation. We adopt the Kuhfuss (1986) model of convection, reformulated for the use in stellar pulsation hydrocodes. Physical as well as numerical assumptions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-13 R. Smolec , P. Moskalik

The convective envelopes of solar-type stars and the convective cores of intermediate- and high-mass stars share boundaries with stable radiative zones. Through a host of processes we collectively refer to as "convective boundary mixing"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Evan H. Anders , May G. Pedersen

We present the first detailed three-dimensional hydrodynamic implicit large eddy simulations of turbulent convection for carbon burning. The simulations start with an initial radial profile mapped from a carbon burning shell within a 15…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Andrea Cristini , Casey Meakin , Raphael Hirschi , David Arnett , Cyril Georgy , Maxime Viallet

Stellar convection is a non-local process responsible for the transport of heat and chemical species. It can lead to enhanced mixing through convective overshooting and excitation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) at convective boundaries.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 D. G. Vlaykov , I. Baraffe , T. Constantino , T. Goffrey , T. Guillet , A. Le Saux , A. Morison , J. Pratt

Stars on the lower main sequence (F-type through M-type) have substantial convective envelopes beneath their stellar photospheres. Convection in these regions can couple with rotation to build global-scale structures that may be observable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-01 Benjamin P. Brown

During their main sequence evolution, massive stars can develop convective regions very close to their surface. These regions are caused by an opacity peak associated with iron ionization. Cantiello et al. (2009) found a possible connection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-26 Matteo Cantiello , Jonathan Braithwaite , Axel Brandenburg , Fabio Del Sordo , Petri Käpylä , Norbert Langer

Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin , Erwin P. van der Poel

Current state-of-the-art computational modeling makes it possible to build realistic models of stellar convection zones and atmospheres that take into account chemical composition, radiative effects, ionization, and turbulence. The standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alan A. Wray

Mixing at the interface between a convection zone and an adjacent, stably-stratified layer plays a crucial role in shaping the structure and evolution of stars and planets. In this work, we present a suite of 2D and 3D Boussinesq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Bradley W. Hindman , J. R. Fuentes

The convective envelopes of cool main-sequence stars harbour magnetic fields with a complex global and local structure. These fields affect the near-surface convection and the outer stellar atmospheres in many ways and are responsible for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Benjamin Beeck , Manfred Schüssler , Robert H. Cameron , Ansgar Reiners

High-resolution images of the solar surface show a granulation pattern of hot rising and cooler downward-sinking material -- the top of the deep-reaching solar convection zone. Convection plays a role for the thermal structure of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Bernd Freytag , Matthias Steffen , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Werner Schaffenberger , Oskar Steiner

Although the dependence of convective core overshooting on mass has attracted much attention, no corresponding work exists for overshooting below a convective envelope. We aim to quantify this relationship for pre-main sequence stars of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , M. -G. Dethero , M. Stuck , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Goffrey

The extent of mixed regions around convective zones is one of the biggest uncertainties in stellar evolution. 1D overshooting descriptions introduce a free parameter ($f_{ov}$) that is in general not well constrained from observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Johann Higl , Ewald Mueller , Achim Weiss

State-of-the-art one-dimensional (1D) stellar evolution codes rely on simplifying assumptions, such as mixing length theory, in order to describe superadiabatic convection. As a result, 1D stellar structure models do not correctly recover…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Andreas Christ Sølvsten Jørgensen , Achim Weiss

Non-local, time-dependent convection models have been used to explain the location of double-mode pulsations in Cepheids in the HR diagram as well as the existence and location of the red edge of the instability strip. These properties are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Eva Mundprecht , Herbert J. Muthsam , Friedrich Kupka