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Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to study this physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. Aubert

We study rotating thermal convection in spherical shells. We base our analysis on a set of about 450 direct numerical simulations of the (magneto)hydrodynamic equations under the Boussinesq approximation. The Ekman number ranges from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Rakesh K. Yadav , Thomas Gastine , Ulrich R. Christensen , Lucia Duarte , Ansgar Reiners

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is studied by combining results from direct numerical simulations (DNS), laboratory experiments and asymptotic modeling. The asymptotic theory is shown to provide a good description of the bulk…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Stellmach , M. Lischper , K. Julien , G. Vasil , J. S. Cheng , A. Ribeiro , E. M. King , J. M. Aurnou

In a companion paper, we develop a theory for the evolution of stellar wind driven bubbles in dense, turbulent clouds. This theory proposes that turbulent mixing at a fractal bubble-shell interface leads to highly efficient cooling, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Lachlan Lancaster , Eve C. Ostriker , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Chang-Goo Kim

(abridged) Context. Turbulent fluxes of angular momentum and heat due to rotationally affected convection play a key role in determining differential rotation of stars. Here we perform a systematic comparison between Cartesian and spherical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-07 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Mantere , G. Guerrero , A. Brandenburg , P. Chatterjee

Numerical MHD simulations play increasingly important role for understanding mechanisms of stellar magnetism. We present simulations of convection and dynamos in density-stratified rotating spherical fluid shells. We employ a new 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Radostin D. Simitev , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Friedrich H. Busse

Motivated by the dynamics in the deep interiors of many stars, we study the interaction between overshooting convection and the large-scale poloidal fields residing in radiative zones. We have run a suite of 3D Boussinesq numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Lydia Korre , Nicholas H. Brummell , Pascale Garaud , Celine Guervilly

We present results of interface-resolved simulations of heat transfer in suspensions of finite-size neutrally-buoyant spherical particles for solid volume fractions up to 35% and bulk Reynolds numbers from 500 to 5600. An Immersed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ali Yousefi , Mehdi Niazi Ardekani , Francesco Picano , Luca Brandt

Convection in a spherical shell is widely used to model fluid layers of planets and stars. The choice of thermal boundary conditions in such models is not always straightforward. To understand the implications of this choice, we report on…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Thibaut Clarté , Nathanaël Schaeffer , Stéphane Labrosse , Jérémie Vidal

In a number of geophysical or planetological settings (Earth's inner core, a silicate mantle crystallizing from a magma ocean, or an ice shell surrounding a deep water ocean) a convecting crystalline layer is in contact with a layer of its…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Renaud Deguen

The banded structures observed on the surfaces of the gas giants are associated with strong zonal winds alternating in direction with latitude. We use three-dimensional numerical simulations of compressible convection in the anelastic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Gastine , J. Wicht

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

Recent studies of rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection at high rotation rates and strong thermal forcing have shown a significant discrepancy in total heat transport between experiments on a confined cylindrical domain on the one hand and…

In this work we study the self-diffusion properties of a liquid of hollow spherical particles (shells)bearing a smaller solid sphere in their interior (yolks). We model this system using purely repulsive hard-body interactions between all…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 L. E. Sánchez Díaz , E. C. Cortes-Morales , X. Li , Wei-Ren Chen , M. Medina-Noyola

This paper presents the results of a set of radiative hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations of convection in the near-surface regions of a rapidly rotating star. The simulations use microphysics consistent with stellar models, and include the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Frank Robinson , Joel Tanner , Sarbani Basu

The competition between turbulent convection and global rotation in planetary and stellar interiors governs the transport of heat and tracers, as well as magnetic-field generation. These objects operate in dynamical regimes ranging from…

We investigate simulated turbulent flow within thermally driven stellar convection zones. Different driving sources are studied, including cooling at the top of the convectively unstable region, as occurs in surface convection zones; and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Casey Meakin , David Arnett

Mesoscale convection covers an intermediate scale range between small-scale turbulence and the global organization of the convection flow. It is often characterized by an order of the convection patterns despite very high Rayleigh numbers…

We investigate properties of turbulence and turbulent transport of non-inertial particles described in terms of turbulent thermal diffusion in strongly inhomogeneous and anisotropic convection forced by two similar turbulence generators…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-17 E. Zarbib , E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

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