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In this paper, we investigate the upward overshooting by three-dimensional numerical simulations. We find that the above convectively stable zone can be partitioned into three layers: the thermal adjustment layer (mixing both entropy and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 Tao Cai

Stellar models utilising one-dimensional (1D), heuristic theories of convection fail to adequately describe the energy transport in superadiabatic layers. The improper modelling leads to well-known discrepancies between observed and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Andreas Christ Sølvsten Jørgensen , George C. Angelou

Stellar evolution models of massive stars are important for many areas of astrophysics, for example nucleosynthesis yields, supernova progenitor models and understanding physics under extreme conditions. Turbulence occurs in stars primarily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Andréa Cristini , Casey Meakin , Raphael Hirschi , David Arnett , Cyril Georgy , Maxime Viallet

The main scope of this paper is to investigate the possible existence of a metallicity dependence of the overshooting from main sequence stars turbulent cores. We focus on objects with masses in the range ~2.5 Msol - ~25 Msol. Basically,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Cordier , Y. Lebreton , M. -J. Goupil , T. Lejeune , J. -P. Beaulieu , F. Arenou

In a robust statistical way, we quantify the uncertainty that affects the calibration of the overshooting efficiency parameter $\beta$ that is owing to the uncertainty on the observational data in double-lined eclipsing binary systems. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

We study turbulent convection during the core helium flash close to its peak by comparing the results of two and three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. We use a multidimensional Eulerian hydrodynamics code based on state-of-the-art…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Mocak , E. Mueller , A. Weiss , K. Kifonidis

Condensable species are crucial in shaping planetary climate. A wide range of planetary climate systems involve understanding non-dilute condensable substances and their influence on climate dynamics. There has been progress on large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xianyu Tan , Maxence Lefevre , Raymond Pierrehumbert

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

We present multidimensional modeling of convection and oscillations in main-sequence stars somewhat more massive than the Sun, using three separate approaches: 1) Using the 3-D planar StellarBox radiation hydrodynamics code to model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Joyce A. Guzik , T. H. Morgan , N. J. Nelson , C. Lovekin , K. Kosak , I. N. Kitiashvili , N. N. Mansour , A. Kosovichev

Inferences from observations clearly show that mixing in stars extends beyond the convective boundaries defined by mixing length theory. This triggered the proposal of a variety of prescriptions to include additional mixing in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Lynn Buchele

The era of detailed asteroseismic analyses opened by space missions such as CoRoT and $\textit{Kepler}$ has highlighted the need for stellar models devoid of numerical inaccuracies, in order to be able to diagnose which physical aspects are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Maurice Gabriel , Arlette Noels , Josefina Montalban , Andrea Miglio

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

The detached eclipsing binary stars with convective cores provide a good tool to investigate the convective core overshoot. It has been performed on some binary stars to restrict the classical overshoot model which simply extends the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Meng , Q. S. Zhang

Extending our recent studies of two-dimensional stellar convection to 3D, we compare three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to identically set-up two-dimensional simulations, for a realistic pre-main sequence star. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , T. Goffrey , C. Geroux , T. Constantino , D. Folini , R. Walder

Two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of convective oxygen burning shell in the presupernova evolution of a 20 solar-mass star are extended to later times. We used the VULCAN code to simulate longer evolution times than previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Asida , David Arnett

Helioseismic investigation has suggested to apply the turbulent convection models (TCMs) to the convective overshooting. Using the turbulent velocity in the overshooting region determined by the TCM, one can deal with the overshooting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Q. S. Zhang

Context: Internal chemical mixing in intermediate- and high-mass stars represents an immense uncertainty in stellar evolution models.In addition to extending the main-sequence lifetime, chemical mixing also appreciably increases the mass of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Cole Johnston

We present the results of 3--D simulations of core convection within A-type stars of 2 solar masses, at a range of rotation rates. We consider the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thereby encompassing the convective core and some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

Supermassive stars are Population III stars with masses exceeding $10^4\,M_{\odot}$ that could be the progenitors of the first supermassive black holes. Their interiors are in a regime where radiation pressure dominates the equation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Simon Blouin , Huaqing Mao , Tyrone E. Woods , Pavel Denissenkov , Paul R. Woodward , Falk Herwig

One-dimensional (1D) stellar evolution models are widely used across various astrophysical fields, however they are still dominated by important uncertainties that deeply affect their predictive power. Among those, the merging of…