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Convection in rotating spherical geometries is an important physical process in planetary and stellar systems. Using continuation methods at low Prandtl number, we find both strong equatorially asymmetric and symmetric polar nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 F. Garcia , F. R. N. Chambers , A. L. Watts

Stellar tachoclines are thin regions located between the radiative core and the convective envelope of solar-type stars. They are defined as layers where the rotation of the radiative interior transitions to the differential rotation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Camille Moisset , Stéphane Mathis , Louis Amard

Anti-solar differential rotation profiles have been found for decades in numerical simulations of convective envelopes of solar-type stars. These profiles are characterized by a slow equator and fast poles (i.e., reversed with respect to…

Available helioseismic data now span almost the entire solar activity cycle 23 making it possible to study solar-cycle related changes of the solar rotation rate in detail. In this paper we study how the solar rotation rate, in particular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu , S. M. Chitre

The rotation of granules shows thermal properties similar to the thermal motion of molecules, which effects convection criterion and solar granule size.The granular rotation generates the rotational additional pressure and corresponding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Haibin Chen , Rong Wu

Magnetohydrodynamic star-in-a-box simulations of convection and dynamos in a solar-like star with different rotation rates are presented. These simulations produce solar-like differential rotation with a fast equator and slow poles, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Petri J. Käpylä

Torsional oscillations represent bands of fast and slow zonal flows around the Sun, which extend deep into the convection zone and migrate during solar cycles towards the equator following the sunspot butterfly diagram. Analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin

We perform Large eddy simulations of turbulent compressible convection in stellar-type convection zones by solving the Navi\'{e}r-Stokes equations in three dimensions. We estimate the extent of penetration into the stable layer above a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Partha S. Pal , Harinder P. Singh , Kwing L. Chan , M. P. Srivastava

High-resolution images of the solar surface show a granulation pattern of hot rising and cooler downward-sinking material -- the top of the deep-reaching solar convection zone. Convection plays a role for the thermal structure of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Bernd Freytag , Matthias Steffen , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Werner Schaffenberger , Oskar Steiner

The magnetic fields of solar-type stars are observed to cycle over decadal periods -11 years in the case of the Sun. The fields originate in the turbulent convective layers of stars and have a complex dependency upon stellar rotation rate.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , P. Charbonneau , A. S. Brun , J. -D. do Nascimento

Modeling the surface brightness distribution of stars is of prime importance to interpret observations. Nevertheless, this remains quite challenging for cool stars as it requires one to model the MHD turbulence that develops in their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 C. Pinçon , L. Petitdemange , R. Raynaud , L. J. Garcia , A. Guseva , M. Rieutord , E. Alecian

The Sun is a non-equilibrium dissipative system subjected to an energy flow which originates in its core. Convective overshooting motions create temperature and velocity structures which show a temporal and spatial evolution. As a result,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Berrilli , S. Scardigli , S. Giordano

Differential rotation is the basis of the solar dynamo theory. Synoptic maps of He I intensity from Carrington rotations 2032 to 2135 are utilized to investigate the differential rotation of the solar chromosphere in the He I absorption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 KJ Li , JC Xu , JL Xie , W Feng

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

Surface differential rotation (DR) is one major ingredient of the magnetic field generation process in the Sun and likely in other stars. The term solar-like differential rotation describes the observation that solar equatorial regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Reinhold , R. Arlt

We derive the scaling of differential rotation in both slowly- and rapidly-rotating convection zones using order of magnitude methods. Our calculations apply across stars and fluid planets and all rotation rates, as well as to both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Adam S. Jermyn , Shashikumar M. Chitre , Pierre Lesaffre , Christopher A. Tout

Tidal interactions in close star-planet or binary star systems may excite inertial waves (their restoring force is the Coriolis force) in the convective region of the stars. The dissipation of these waves plays a prominent role in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Mathieu Guenel , Stéphane Mathis , Clément Baruteau , Michel Rieutord

We present a high-resolution, highly stratified numerical simulation of rotating thermal convection in a spherical shell. Our aim is to study in detail the processes that can maintain a near surface shear layer (NSSL) as inferred from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

Frequency splitting coefficients from Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) observations covering the period 1995--2001 are used to study temporal variations in the solar rotation rate at high latitudes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu

Solar torsional oscillations are migrating bands of slower- and faster-than-average rotation, which are strongly related to the Sun's magnetic cycle. We perform a long-term study (16 yr) of hemispherical asymmetry in solar torsional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Lekshmi B , Dibyendu Nandy , H M Antia