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The solar surface is a continuous source of internal gravity waves (IGWs). IGWs are believed to supply the bulk of the wave energy for the lower solar atmosphere, but their existence and role for the energy balance of the upper layers is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth , O. Steiner , B. Fleck

The theory of low-frequency internal gravity waves (IGWs) is readdressed in the stable stratified weakly ionized Earth's ionosphere. The formation of dipolar vortex structures and their dynamical evolution, as well as, the emergence of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 A. P. Misra , Animesh Roy , Debjani Chatterjee , T. D. Kaladze

The solar convective zone, or SCZ, is nearly adiabatic and marginally convectively unstable. But the SCZ is also in a state of differential rotation, and its dynamical stability properties are those of a weakly magnetized gas. This renders…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven Balbus

Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. P. Ratnasingam , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

In this paper, we consider a fundamental problem of describing the dynamics of internal gravity waves in the stratified ocean with shear flows. We develop an asymptotic representation of the wave fields in terms of the Green's functions. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-20 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

Retrograde waves with frequencies much lower than the rotation frequency become trapped in the solar radiative interior. The eigenfunctions of the compressible, nonadiabatic, Rossby-like modes ($\epsilon$-mechanism and radiative losses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Dzhalilov , J. Staude , V. N. Oraevsky

Inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) play an essential role in the terrestrial atmospheric dynamics as they can lead to energy and momentum flux when propagating upwards. An open question is to which extent IGWs contribute to the total energy and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Costanza Rodda , Uwe Harlander

Main-sequence intermediate-mass stars present a radiative envelope that supports internal gravity waves (IGWs). Excited at the boundary with the convective core, IGWs propagate towards the stellar surface and are suspected to impact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 A. Le Saux , I. Baraffe , T. Guillet , D. G. Vlaykov , A. Morison , J. Pratt , T. Constantino , T. Goffrey

We present self-consistent numerical simulations of the sun's convection zone and radiative interior using a two-dimensional model of its equatorial plane. The background reference state is a one-dimensional solar structure model. Turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tamara M. Rogers , Gary A. Glatzmaier

A new class of solutions which yields an $(n+1)$-dimensional spacetime with a longitudinal nonlinear magnetic field is introduced. These spacetimes have no curvature singularity and no horizon, and the magnetic field is non singular in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-05 M. H. Dehghani , S. H. Hendi

We study the properties of internal gravity waves (IGWs) detected in synthetic observations that are obtained from realistic numerical simulation of the solar atmosphere. We used four different simulations of the solar magneto-convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth

In certain models of conformal gravity, the propagation of gravitational waves is governed by a fourth order scalar partial differential equation. We study the initial value problem for a generalization of this equation, and derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Sanjeev S. Seahra

We advance our prior energy- and flux-budget turbulence closure model (Zilitinkevich et al., 2007, 2008) for the stably stratified atmospheric flows and extend it accounting for additional vertical flux of momentum and additional…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. S. Zilitinkevich , T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , V. L'vov , I. Rogachevskii

The inspiral of binary systems in vacuum is controlled by the stress-energy of gravitational radiation and any other propagating degrees of freedom. For gravitational waves, the dominant contribution is characterized by an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes

We calculate the angular momentum transport by gravito-inertial-Alfv\'en waves and show that, so long as prograde and retrograde gravity waves are excited to roughly the same amplitude, the sign of angular momentum deposit in the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pawan Kumar , Suzanne Talon , Jean-Paul Zahn

Internal gravity waves are excited at the interface of convection and radiation zones of a solar-type star by the tidal forcing of a short-period planet. The fate of these waves as they approach the centre of the star depends on their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. J. Barker , G. I. Ogilvie

The differential rotation of the sun, as deduced from helioseismology, exhibits a prominent radial shear layer near the top of the convection zone wherein negative radial gradients of angular velocity are evident in the low- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. DeRosa , P. A. Gilman , J. Toomre

The structure of steady plane-parallel radiative shock waves propagating through the hydrogen gas undergoing partial ionization and excitation of bound atomic states is investigated in terms of the self-consistent solution of the equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Fadeyev , D. Gillet

We explicitly demonstrate that the nonlocal ghost-free ultraviolet modification of general relativity (GR) known as the infinite derivative gravity (IDG) resolves nonscalar curvature singularities in exact solutions of the full theory. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-13 Ivan Kolář , Tomáš Málek

We study interacting scalar field theory non-minimally coupled to gravity in the FRW background. We show that for a specific choice of interaction terms, the energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field vanishes, and as a result the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nabamita Banerjee , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Dileep P. Jatkar