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We present first realistic numerical simulations of 3D radiative convection in the surface layers of main sequence A-type stars with Teff = 8000 K and 8500 K, log g = 4.4 and 4.0, recently performed with the CO5BOLD radiation hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Steffen , B. Freytag , H. -G. Ludwig

Under nonlocal convection theory, convection extends without limit therefore no apparent boundary can be defined clearly as in the local theory. From the requirement of a similar structure for both local and non-local models having the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Deng , D. R. Xiong

Recent photometric observations of massive stars have identified a low-frequency power excess which appears as stochastic low-frequency variability in light curve observations. We present the oscillation properties of high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 William Thompson , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , Pavel Denissenkov , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon Blouin

Overshooting of turbulent motions from convective regions into adjacent stably stratified zones plays a significant role in stellar interior dynamics as this process may lead to mixing of chemical species, and contribute to the transport of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Lydia Korre , Nicholas A. Featherstone

Horizontally extended turbulent convection, termed mesoscale convection in natural systems, remains a challenge to investigate in both experiments and simulations. This is particularly so for very low molecular Prandtl numbers as in stellar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Ambrish Pandey , Dmitry Krasnov , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , Jörg Schumacher

Convection on geophysical and astrophysical scales is subject to rapid rotation and strong heating from within the domain. In studying the long-time behaviour of the solutions for such a system, energy identities fail to capture the effects…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-03 Yutong Zhang , Ali Arslan , Stefano Maffei , Andrew Jackson

The absorption of light or radiation drives turbulent convection inside stars, supernovae, frozen lakes and the Earth's mantle. In these contexts, the goal of laboratory and numerical studies is to determine the relation between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-08 Simon Lepot , Sébastien Aumaître , Basile Gallet

A ubiquitous arrangement in nature is a free-flowing fluid coupled to a porous medium, for example a river or lake lying above a porous bed. Depending on the environmental conditions, thermal convection can occur and may be confined to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 Matthew McCurdy , Nicholas J. Moore , Xiaoming Wang

Double-diffusive convection, often referred to as semi-convection in astrophysics, occurs in thermally and compositionally stratified systems which are stable according to the Ledoux-criterion but unstable according to the Schwarzchild…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Erica Rosenblum , Pascale Garaud , Adrienne Traxler , Stephan Stellmach

The subsurface convective zones (CZs) of massive stars significantly influences many of their key characteristics. Previous studies have paid little attention to the impact of rotation on the subsurface convective zone (CZ), so we aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xiao-long He , Guo-liang Lv , Chun-hua Zhu , Lin Li , He-lei Liu , Su-fen Guo , Xi-zhen Lu , Lei Li , Hao Wang

We have extended the ANTARES code to simulate the coupling of pulsation with convection in Cepheid-like variables in an increasingly realistic way, in particular in multidimensions, 2D at this stage. Present days models of radially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Eva Mundprecht , Herbert J. Muthsam , Friedrich Kupka

This investigation deals with the analysis of stagnation point heat transfer and corresponding flow features of hydromagnetic viscous incompressible fluid over a vertical shrinking sheet. The considered sheet is assumed to be permeable and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-20 Rakesh Kumar , Shilpa Sood

The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a convective dynamo can account quantitatively for the observed lower limit of X-ray surface flux in solar-type main sequence stars. Our approach is to use 3D numerical simulations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Bercik , G. H. FIsher , C. M. Johns-Krull , W. P. Abbett

We have performed the first three-dimensional non-linear simulation of the turbulent convective envelope of a rotating 0.8 Msun RGB star using the ASH code. Adopting a global typical rotation rate of a tenth of the solar rate, we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Palacios , A. S. Brun

Context. The one-dimensional treatment of turbulent convection had large successes until the early 2000s. However, the recent abundance and precision of observational data shows that this problem is far from solved. A modern approach should…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Gábor B. Kovács , R. Szabó , J. Nuspl

We present an extensive study of Boussinesq thermal convection including a temperature-dependent internal heating source, based on numerical three-dimensional simulations. The temperature dependence mimics triple-$\alpha$ nuclear reactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 F. Garcia , F. R. N Chambers , A. L. Watts

Inner core translation, with solidification on one hemisphere and melting on the other, provides a promising basis for understanding the hemispherical dichotomy of the inner core, as well as the anomalous stable layer observed at the base…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Renaud Deguen , Thierry Alboussière , Philippe Cardin

We report on modelling in stellar astrophysics with the ANTARES code. First, we describe properties of turbulence in solar granulation as seen in high-resolution calculations. Then, we turn to the first 2D model of pulsation-convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Herbert J. Muthsam , Friedrich Kupka , Eva Mundprecht , Florian Zaussinger , Hannes Grimm-Strele , Natalie Happenhofer

We study lithium depletion in low-mass and solar-like stars as a function of time, using a new diffusion coefficient describing extra-mixing taking place at the bottom of a convective envelope. This new form is motivated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 I. Baraffe , J. Pratt , T. Goffrey , T. Constantino , D. Folini , M. V. Popov , R. Walder , M. Viallet

Mixing in the convective core is quite uncertain in core helium burning stars. In order to explore the overshooting mixing beyond the convective core, we incorporated the $k$-$\omega$ proposed by Li (2012, 2017) into MESA, and investigated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yan Li , Xing-hao Chen , He-ran Xiong , Jun-jun Guo , Xue-fei Chen , Zhan-wen Han