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Semiconvection occurs in regions of stars and planets that are unstable to overturning convection according to the Schwarzschild criterion, yet stable according to the Ledoux criterion. Previous simulations in Cartesian boxes have advanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 J. R. Fuentes

Thermal convection in rotating stars and planets drives anisotropic turbulence and differential rotation, both capable of feeding energy into global oscillations. Using 3D simulations of rotating convection in spherical shells, we show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 J. R. Fuentes , Ankit Barik , Jim Fuller

Three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations of shell oxygen burning (Meakin and Arnett 2007) exhibit bursty, recurrent fluctuations in turbulent kinetic energy. These are shown to be due to a global instability in the convective region,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

Radial differential rotation is an important factor in stellar dynamo theory. In the Sun, helioseismology has revealed a near surface shear layer in the upper 5 to 10% of the convection zone. At low to midlatitudes, the rotation velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 T. Corbard , M. Faurobert , B. Gelly , R. Douet , D. Laforgue

We analyze the simulation result shown in Hotta & Kusano, 2021 in which the solar-like differential rotation is reproduced. The Sun is rotating differentially with the fast equator and the slow pole. It is widely thought that the thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 H. Hotta , K. Kusano , R. Shimada

We derive the effective temperatures and gravities of 461 OB stars in 19 young clusters by fitting the H-gamma profile in their spectra. We use synthetic model profiles for rotating stars to develop a method to estimate the polar gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Huang , D. R. Gies

We present the results of 3--D nonlinear simulations of magnetic dynamo action by 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, with the spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

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

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

Recent asteroseismic advances have allowed for direct measurements of the internal rotation rates of many sub-giant and red giant stars. Unlike the nearly rigidly rotating Sun, these evolved stars contain radiative cores that spin faster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 Jim Fuller , Daniel Lecoanet , Matteo Cantiello , Ben Brown

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

Stars lose a significant amount of angular momentum between birth and death, implying that efficient processes transporting it from the core to the surface are active. Space asteroseismology delivered the interior rotation rates of more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Conny Aerts , Stephane Mathis , Tamara Rogers

Two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamical simulations of progenitor evolution of a 23 solar mass star, close to core collapse (about 1 hour, in 1D), with simultaneously active C, Ne, O, and Si burning shells, are presented and contrasted to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

We present here the first 2D rotating, multi-group, radiation magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulations of supernova core collapse, bounce, and explosion. In the context of rapid rotation, we focus on the dynamical effects of magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Adam Burrows , Luc Dessart , Eli Livne , Christian D. Ott , Jeremiah Murphy

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

We study stellar convection using a local three-dimensional MHD model, with which we investigate the influence of rotation and large-scale magnetic fields on the turbulent momentum and heat transport. The former is studied by computing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , I. Tuominen

Convection in stars and planets must be maintained against viscous and Ohmic dissipation. Here, we present the first systematic investigation of viscous dissipation in simulations of rotating, density-stratified plane layers of convection.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Simon R. W. Lance , Laura K. Currie , Matthew K. Browning

We report the finding of an azimuthal dynamo wave of a low-order (m=1) mode in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent convection in spherical shells. Such waves are predicted by mean field dynamo theory and have been obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-19 Elizabeth Cole , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit J. Mantere , Axel Brandenburg

Context: Rotating anisotropic convection generates differential rotation in stellar convection zones. Aims: The main aim is to compute the non-diffusive contribution ($\Lambda$ effect) to angular momentum transport, described by Reynolds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 P. J. Käpylä

In the context of secular evolution, we describe the dynamics of the radiative core of low-mass stars to understand the internal transport of angular momentum in such stars which results in a solid rotation in the Sun from 0.7R_sun to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 D. Hypolite , S. Mathis , M. Rieutord