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The nonlinear coupling between stellar convection and rotation is of great interest because it relates to understanding both stellar evolution and activity. We investigated the influence of rotation and the Coriolis force on the dynamics…

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Magnetic element tracking is often used to study the transport and diffusion of the magnetic field on the solar photosphere. From the analysis of the displacement spectrum of these tracers, it has been recently agreed that a regime of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 D. Del Moro , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , F. Lepreti , M. Gosic

Microparticles migrate in response to gradients in solute concentration through diffusiophoresis and diffusioosmosis. Merging streams of fluid with distinct solute concentrations is a common strategy for producing a steady concentration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-01 Robben E. Migacz , Guillaume Durey , Jesse T. Ault

Rapidly rotating fluids have a rotation profile which depends only on the distance from the rotation axis, in accordance with the Taylor-Proudman theorem. Although the Sun was expected to be such a body, helioseismology showed that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Yuto Bekki , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

The chapter begins with a description of the annulus model of rotationg convection. The basic equations for the spherical problem are then introduced and the onset of columnar convection in spherical shells is discussed. The onset of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-08 F. H. Busse , R. D. Simitev

The recent discovery of inertial waves on the surface of the Sun offers new possibilities to learn about the solar interior. These waves are long-lived with a period on the order of the Sun rotation period ($\sim$27 days) and are sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen , Thorsten Hohage , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

Three-dimensional non-rotating odd viscous liquids give rise to Taylor columns and support {axisymmetric} inertial-like waves [\emph{J. Fluid Mech.}, vol. {973}, A30, (2023)]. When an odd viscous liquid is subjected to rigid-body rotation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-02 E. Kirkinis , M. Olvera de la Cruz

We carry out high-resolution calculations for the stellar convection zone. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a small-scale dynamo on the differential rotation. The solar differential rotation deviates from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 H. Hotta

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

We present the first global 3D simulations of thermal convection in the oblate envelopes of rapidly-rotating solar-type stars. This has been achieved by exploiting the capabilities of the new Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Junfeng Wang , Mark S. Miesch , Chunlei Liang

We present a simple model for the solar differential rotation and meridional circulation based on a mean field parameterization of the Reynolds stresses that drive the differential rotation. We include the subadiabatic part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Rempel

We report on simulations of turbulent, rotating, stratified, magnetohydrodynamic convection in spherical wedge geometry. An initially small-scale, random, weak-amplitude magnetic field is amplified by several orders of magnitude in the…

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

In this paper we present a simulation study of water-like anomalies in core-softened system introduced in our previous publications. We investigate the anomalous regions for a system with the same functional form of the potential but with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Yu. D. Fomin , E. N. Tsiok , V. N. Ryzhov

We examine the dynamics associated with weakly compressible convection in a spherical shell by running 3D direct numerical simulations using the Boussinesq formalism [1]. Motivated by problems in astrophysics, we assume the existence of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 Lydia Korre , Nicholas Brummell , Pascale Garaud

Understanding the complex interactions between convection, magnetic fields, and rotation is key to modeling the internal dynamics of the Sun and stars. Under rotational influence, compressible convection forms prograde-propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuto Bekki

The dynamical origins of the Sun's tachocline and near-surface shear layer (NSSL) are still not well understood. We have attempted to self-consistently reproduce a NSSL in numerical simulations of a solar-like convection zone by increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Loren I. Matilsky , Bradley W. Hindman , J. Toomre

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

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

We investigate numerically kinematic dynamos driven by flow of electrically conducting fluid in the shell between two concentric differentially rotating spheres, a configuration normally referred to as spherical Couette flow. We compare…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-07 Xing Wei , Andrew Jackson , Rainer Hollerbach

Helicity is the scalar product between velocity and vorticity and, just like energy, its integral is an in-viscid invariant of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. However, space-and time-discretization methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Francesco Capuano , Donato Vallefuoco