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We study the mixing length concept in comparison to three-dimensional numerical calculations of convection with rotation. In a limited range, the velocity and temperature fluctuations are linearly proportional to the superadiabaticity, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , M. Stix , I. Tuominen

The connectivity pattern of networks, which are based on a correlation between ground level temperature time series, shows a dominant dense stripe of links in the southern ocean. We show that statistical categorization of these links yields…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yang Wang , Avi Gozolchiani , Yosef Ashkenazy , Yehiel Berezin , Oded Guez , Shlomo Havlin

Weak-temperature-gradient influences from the tropics and quasigeostrophic influences from the extratropics plausibly constrain the subtropical-mean static stability in terrestrial atmospheres. Because mean descent acting on this static…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Jonathan L. Mitchell , Spencer A. Hill

The propagation of compressional MHD waves is studied for an externally driven system. It is assumed that the combined action of the external sources and sinks of the entropy results in the harmonic oscillation of the entropy (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. M. Shergelashvili , C. Maes , S. Poedts , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We use a large, statistical set of measurements from the Wind spacecraft at 1 AU, and supporting synthetic spacecraft data based on kinetic plasma theory, to show that the compressible component of inertial range solar wind turbulence is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. G. Howes , S. D. Bale , K. G. Klein , C. H. K. Chen , C. S. Salem , J. M. TenBarge

In the present study a mathematical model of long-crested water waves propagating mainly in one direction with the effect of Earth's rotation is derived by following the formal asymptotic procedures. Such a model equation is analogous to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Guilong Gui , Yue Liu , Junwei Sun

Observations by recent space missions reported the detection of Rossby waves (r-modes) in light curves of many stars (mostly A, B, and F spectral types) with outer radiative envelope. This paper aims to study the theoretical dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 M. Albekioni , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Kukhianidze , E. Gurgenashvili , P. Bourdin

Gravito-inertial waves can be excited at the interface of convective and radiative regions and by the Reynolds stresses in the bulk of the convection zone. The magnitude of their energy flux will therefore vary with the properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 Kyle C. Augustson , Stéphane Mathis

P\"aschke et al. (JFM, 701, 137--170 (2012)) studied the nonlinear dynamics of strongly tilted vortices subject to asymmetric diabatic heating by asymptotic methods. They found, \ia, that an azimuthal Fourier mode~1 heating pattern can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-15 Tom Dörffel , Ariane Papke , Rupert Klein , Natalia Ernst , Piotr Smolarkiewicz

Magnetic turbulence in the solar wind is treated from the point of view of electrodynamics. This can be done based on the use of Poynting's theorem attributing all turbulent dynamics to the spectrum of turbulent conductivity. For two…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Context: Differential rotation in stars is driven by turbulent transport of angular momentum. Aims: To measure and parametrize the non-diffusive contribution to turbulent stress, known as $\Lambda$ effect, and its quenching as a function of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 Petri J. Käpylä

A theoretical framework is developed for understanding the transient growth and propagation characteristics of thermodynamically coupled, meridional mode-like structures in the tropics. The model consists of a Gill-Matsuno type steady…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Cristian Martinez-Villalobos , Daniel J. Vimont

It is shown by perturbation techniques and numerical simulations that the inverse cascade of kink-antikink annihilations, characteristic of the Kolmogorov flow in the slightly supercritical Reynolds number regime, is halted by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Legras , B. Villone , U. Frisch

In the present work, we explore the Rossby mode instabilities in neutron stars as sources of gravitational waves. The intensity and time evolution of the emitted gravitational waves in terms of the amplitude of the strain tensor are…

We develop a mean-field theory of compressibility effects in turbulent magnetohydrodynamics and passive scalar transport using the quasi-linear approximation and the spectral $\tau$-approach. We find that compressibility decreases the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-14 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin , A. Brandenburg

We study the evolution of eastward propagating dipoles (modons) in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic $\beta$-plane model using high-resolution numerical simulations. Various combinations of background gradients of potential vorticity in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-04 Matthew. N. Crowe , Georgi. G. Sutyrin

Stochastic gravity waves have been recently detected and characterised in stars thanks to space asteroseismology and they may play an important role in the evolution of stellar angular momentum. In this context, the observational study of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stéphane Mathis , Coralie Neiner

On the one hand, several types of global-scale inertial modes of oscillation have been observed on the Sun. They include the equatorial Rossby modes, critical-latitude modes, and high-latitude modes. On the other hand, the columnar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Yuto Bekki , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

Electrostatic Gravitational or Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in an inhomogeneous magnetized multi-ions plasma with some fraction of quantum mechanical electrons. The effect of Bohm potential, temperature degeneracy and magnetic field are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 A. Mushtaq , Sajad Ali , Zahida Ehsan

The turbulent Rayleigh--Taylor system in a rotating reference frame is investigated by direct numerical simulations within the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. On the basis of theoretical arguments, supported by our simulations, we show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-16 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio