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This study examines the onset of rotating magnetoconvection under an axially imposed magnetic field in the presence of partial thermal stable stratification. Three stratification models-fully unstable, weakly stable, and strongly stable-are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Tirtharaj Barman , Swarandeep Sahoo

We study the tidal forcing, propagation and dissipation of linear inertial waves in a rotating fluid body. The intentionally simplified model involves a perfectly rigid core surrounded by a deep ocean consisting of a homogeneous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie

The influence of a toroidal magnetic field on the dynamics of Rossby waves in a thin layer of ideal conductive fluid on a rotating sphere is studied in the "shallow water" magnetohydrodynamic approximation for the first time. Dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester , B. M. Shergelashvili

Using fully three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the effect of the Coriolis force on the hydrodynamic and observable properties of colliding wind binary systems. To make the calculations tractable, we assume adiabatic,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We present results from simulations of rotating magnetized turbulent convection in spherical wedge geometry representing parts of the latitudinal and longitudinal extents of a star. Here we consider a set of runs for which the density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit. J. Mantere , Elizabeth Cole , Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

There is an intricate relationship between the organization of large-scale magnetic fields by a stellar dynamo and the rate of angular momentum loss due to magnetized stellar winds. An essential ingredient for the operation of a large-scale…

Cloud cover at the planetary limb of water-rich Earth-like planets is likely to weaken chemical signatures in transmission spectra, impeding attempts to characterize these atmospheres. However, based on observations of Earth and solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Maureen Cohen , Massimo A. Bollasina , Denis E. Sergeev , Paul I. Palmer , Nathan J. Mayne

Understanding the nature of compressible fluctuations in a broad range of turbulent plasmas, from the intracluster medium to the solar wind, has been an active field of research in the past decades. Theoretical frameworks for weakly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , James R. Beattie , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Convection occurs ubiquitously on and in rotating geophysical and astrophysical bodies. Prior spherical shell studies have shown that the convection dynamics in polar regions can differ significantly from the lower latitude, equatorial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 T. Gastine , J. M. Aurnou

We investigate the characteristics of equatorial waves associated with the maintenance of superrotation in the stratosphere of a Titan general circulation model. A variety of equatorial waves are present in the model atmosphere, including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Neil T. Lewis , Nicholas A. Lombardo , Peter L. Read , Juan M. Lora

The increasing richness of exoplanet observations has motivated a variety of three-dimensional atmospheric circulation models of these planets. Under strongly irradiated conditions, models of tidally locked, short-period planets (both hot…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adam P. Showman , Lorenzo M. Polvani

Numerical simulations of the 3D MHD-equations that describe rotating magnetoconvection in a Cartesian box have been performed using the code NIRVANA. The characteristics of averaged quantities like the turbulence intensity and the turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Giesecke

It is shown, using results of recent direct numerical simulations, laboratory experiments and atmospheric measurements, that buoyancy driven turbulence exhibits a broad diversity of the types of distributed chaos with its stretched…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 A. Bershadskii

We investigate dynamo action in global compressible solar-like convective dynamos in the framework of mean-field theory. We simulate a solar-type star in a wedge-shaped spherical shell, where the interplay between convection and rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jörn Warnecke , Matthias Rheinhardt , S. Tuomisto , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg

From the Earth's atmosphere and oceans to stellar radiation zones, inertia-gravity waves, which are called gravito-inertial waves (hereafter GIWs) in Astrophysics, are transporting momentum and mixing matter when they are damped through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Stéphane Mathis

Geophysical flows are characterized by rapid rotation. Simulating these flows requires small timesteps to achieve stability and accuracy. Numerical stability can be greatly improved by the implicit integration of the terms that are most…

Many questions remain about the compressibility of solar wind turbulence with respect to its origins and properties. Low plasma beta (ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure) environments allow for the easier generation of compressible…

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

Recent observations of Rossby waves and other more exotic forms of inertial oscillations in the Sun's convection zone have kindled the hope that such waves might be used as a seismic probe of the Sun's interior. Here we present a 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Catherine C. Blume , Bradley W. Hindman , Loren I. Matilsky