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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xianyu Tan , Maxence Lefevre , Raymond Pierrehumbert

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical large eddy simulations of solar surface convection using realistic model physics is conducted. The effects of magnetic fields on thermal structure of convective motions into radiative layers, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Ustyugov

We have developed a multidimensional radiation hydrodynamics code to simulate the interaction of radial stellar pulsation and convection for full amplitude pulsating models. Convection is computed using large eddy simulations. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Christopher M. Geroux , Robert G. Deupree

We use the 3D stellar structure code DJEHUTY to model the ingestion of protons into the intershell convection zone of a 1 solar mass asymptotic giant branch star of metallicity Z=10^-4. We have run two simulations: a low resolution one of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Richard J. Stancliffe , David S. P. Dearborn , John C. Lattanzio , Stuart A. Heap , Simon W. Campbell

We perform two-dimensional numerical simulations of core convection for zero-age-main-sequence stars covering a mass range from 3 $M_\odot$ to 20 $M_\odot$. The simulations are performed with the fully compressible time-implicit code MUSIC.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 I. Baraffe , J. Clarke , A. Morison , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Constantino , T. Goffrey , T. Guillet , A. Le Saux , J. Pratt

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

Based on a mean-field theory of a non-rotating turbulent convection (Phys. Rev. E {\bf 66}, 066305, 2002), we perform mean-field simulations (MFS) of sheared convection which takes into account an effect of modification of the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 A. Asulin , E. Tkachenko , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

This paper describes a series of 3D simulations of shallow inefficient convection in the outer layers of the Sun. The computational domain is a closed box containing the convection-radiation transition layer, located at the top of the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Robinson , P. Demarque , L. H. Li , S. Sofia , Y. -C. Kim , K. L. Chan , D. B. Guenther

Solar modelling has long been split into ''internal'' and ''surface'' modelling, because of the lack of tools to connect the very different scales in space and time, as well as the widely different environments and dominating physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Andrius Popovas , Åke Nordlund , Mikolaj Szydlarski

We perform the first multidimensional fluid simulations of thermonuclear helium ignition underneath a hydrogen-rich shell. This situation is relevant to Type I X-ray bursts on neutron stars that accrete from a hydrogen-rich companion. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-21 Simon Guichandut , Michael Zingale , Andrew Cumming

Recent results from high-resolution solar granulation observations indicate the existence of a population of small granular cells that are smaller than 600 km in diameter. These small convective cells strongly contribute to the total area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 B. Lemmerer , D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , A. Veronig , S. Thonhofer , H. Grimm-Strele , R. Kariyappa

To explore the physics of large-scale flows in solar-like stars, we perform 3D anelastic simulations of rotating convection for global models with stratification resembling the solar interior. The numerical method is based on an implicit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour

Stars on the lower main sequence (F-type through M-type) have substantial convective envelopes beneath their stellar photospheres. Convection in these regions can couple with rotation to build global-scale structures that may be observable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-01 Benjamin P. Brown

We present results of three dimensional simulations of the uppermost part of the sun, at 3 stages of its evolution. Each model includes physically realistic radiative-hydrodynamics (the Eddington approximation is used in the optically thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. Robinson , P. Demarque , S. Sofia , K. L. Chan , Y. -C. Kim , D. B. Guenther

The intense turbulence present in the solar convection zone is a major challenge to both theory and simulation as one tries to understand the origins of the striking differential rotation profile with radius and latitude that has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

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

Extending our recent studies of two-dimensional stellar convection to 3D, we compare three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to identically set-up two-dimensional simulations, for a realistic pre-main sequence star. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , T. Goffrey , C. Geroux , T. Constantino , D. Folini , R. Walder

It has been previously shown (Phys. Rev. E 66, 066305, 2002) that a non-rotating turbulent convection with nonuniform large-scale flows contributes to the turbulent heat flux. As a result, the turbulent heat flux depends explicitly not only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-19 G. Orian , A. Asulin , E. Tkachenko , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

We performed 3D hydrodynamic simulations of the inner $\approx 50\%$ radial extent of a $25\ \mathrm{M_\odot}$ star in the early phase of the main sequence and investigate core convection and internal gravity waves in the core-envelope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , William R. Thompson , Pavel Denissenkov , Josh Lau , Simon Blouin , Robert Andrassy , Adam Paul

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