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The turbulent diffusion tensor describing the evolution of the mean concentration of a passive scalar is investigated for non-helically forced turbulence in the presence of rotation or a magnetic field. With rotation, the Coriolis force…

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Submesoscale currents in the oceanic mixed layer, comprising fronts, eddies, and filaments, are characterized by $\textit{O}(1)$ Rossby numbers (Ro). These features, which constantly interact with background mesoscale flows and boundary…

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Can atmospheric waves in planet-hosting solar-like stars substantially resonate to tidal forcing? Substantially at a level of impacting the space weather or even of being dynamo-relevant? In particular, low-frequency Rossby waves, which…

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For moderate and slow rotation, magnetic activity of solar-like stars is observed to strongly depend on rotation. These observations do not yet have a solid explanation in terms of dynamo theory. We aim to find such an explanation by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 J. Warnecke , M. J. Käpylä

Turbulent convection in the interiors of the Sun and the Earth occurs at high Rayleigh numbers $Ra$, low Prandtl numbers $Pr$, and different levels of rotation rates. To understand the combined effects better, we study rotating turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Ambrish Pandey , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

The surface zonal winds observed in the giant planets form a complex jet pattern with alternating prograde and retrograde direction. While the main equatorial band is prograde on the gas giants, both ice giants have a pronounced retrograde…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. M. Aurnou

We investigate how rotating convection responds to the imposition of a latitudinally-varying heat flux at the base of the convective layer. This study is motivated by the solar near-surface shear layer, whose flows are thought to transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Kinfe Teweldebirhan , Rituparna Curt , Nicholas A. Featherstone

We study the modulation of fast magnetosonic waves (MSWs) in rotating inhomogeneous low-$\beta$ magnetoplasmas with the effects of gravitation and the Coriolis force. By employing the standard multiple-scale reductive perturbation technique…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 J. Turi , A. P. Misra

Equatorial Kelvin waves can be affected by subtropical Rossby wave dynamics. Previous research has demonstrated the Kelvin wave growth in response to subtropical forcing and the resonant growth due to eddy momentum flux convergence.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-30 Katharina M. Holube , Frank Lunkeit , Sergiy Vasylkevych , Nedjeljka Žagar

Rossby waves drifting in the azimuthal direction are a common feature at the onset of thermal convective instability in a rapidly rotating spherical shell. They can also result from the destabilization of a Stewartson shear layer produced…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Avalos-Zuniga , F. Plunian , K. H. R\" Adler

Numerical simulations of the shallow water equations on rotating spheres produce mixtures of robust vortices and alternating zonal jets, as seen in the atmospheres of the gas giant planets. However, simulations that include Rayleigh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-05 Emma S. Warneford , Paul J. Dellar

An initial zonally symmetric quasigeostrophic potential-vorticity (PV) distribution q_i(y) is subjected to complete or partial mixing within some finite zone |y| < L, where y is latitude. The change in M, the total absolute angular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Richard B. Wood , Michael E. McIntyre

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

Inertial modes have been recently detected in the Sun via helioseismology, yet their origin, evolution, and role in the dynamics of the solar plasma and magnetic field remain poorly understood. In this study, we employ global numerical…

As the Earth rotates, the Coriolis force causes several oceanic and atmospheric waves to be trapped along the equator, including Kelvin, Yanai, Rossby, and Poincar\'e modes. It has been demonstrated that the mathematical origin of these…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-15 Guangyao Li , Dmitry K. Efimkin

The solar convection zone rotates differentially, with its equatorial region rotating more rapidly than the polar regions. This form of differential rotation, also observed in many other low-mass stars, is understood to arise when Coriolis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Maria E. Camisassa , Nicholas A. Featherstone

This review summarizes recent advances in the theoretical analysis of the stability of magnetized flows in a non-uniformly rotating layer of electrically conductive nanofluid, incorporating the effects of Brownian diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 M. I. Kopp , V. V. Yanovsky

Zonal flows in rotating systems have been previously shown to be suppressed by the imposition of a background magnetic field aligned with the direction of rotation. Understanding the physics behind the suppression may be important in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Navid C. Constantinou , Jeffrey B. Parker

Gravito-inertial waves are excited at the interface of convective and radiative regions and by the Reynolds stresses in the bulk of the convection zones of rotating stars and planets. Such waves have notable asteroseismic signatures in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 K. C. Augustson , S. Mathis , A. Astoul

We present a study of inertial modes in a differentially rotating spherical shell (spherical Couette flow) experiment with a radius ratio of $\eta = 1/3$. Inertial modes are Coriolis-restored linear wave modes which often arise in rapidly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-06 Michael Hoff , Uwe Harlander , Santiago A. Triana