English
Related papers

Related papers: Hydrodynamic simulations of He-shell flash convect…

200 papers

We present two mixing models for post-processing of 3D hydrodynamic simulations applied to convective-reactive i-process nucleosynthesis in a rapidly accreting white dwarf (RAWD) with $\mathrm{[Fe/H]} = -2.6$, in which H is ingested into a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 David Stephens , Falk Herwig , Paul Woodward , Pavel Denissenkov , Robert Andrassy , Huaqing Mao

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

We report the results of a magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a convective dynamo in a model solar convective envelope driven by the solar radiative diffusive heat flux. The convective dynamo produces a large-scale mean magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-18 Yuhong Fan , Fang Fang

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

We present multidimensional modeling of convection and oscillations in main-sequence stars somewhat more massive than the Sun, using three separate approaches: 1) Using the 3-D planar StellarBox radiation hydrodynamics code to model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Joyce A. Guzik , T. H. Morgan , N. J. Nelson , C. Lovekin , K. Kosak , I. N. Kitiashvili , N. N. Mansour , A. Kosovichev

Patterns of convection in internally heated, self-gravitating rotating spherical fluid shells are investigated through numerical simulations. While turbulent states are of primary interest in planetary and stellar applications the present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-09 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

Horizon Run 5 (HR5) is a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation which captures the properties of the Universe on a Gpc scale while achieving a resolution of 1kpc. Inside the simulation box we zoom-in on a high-resolution cuboid region with…

We model the solar horizontal velocity power spectrum at scales larger than granulation using a two-component approximation to the mass continuity equation. The model takes four times the density scale height as the integral (driving) scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. W. Lord , R. H. Cameron , M. P. Rast , M. Rempel , T. Roudier

Supergranulation is characterized by horizontally divergent flows with typical length scales of 32 Mm in the solar photosphere. Unlike granulation, the size of which is comparable to both the thickness of the radiative boundary layer and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jean-Francois Cossette , Mark Peter Rast

We present here numerical simulations of surface solar convection which cover a box of 30$\times30\times$3.2 Mm$^3$ with a resolution of 315$\times315\times$82, which is used to investigate the dynamics of scales larger than granulation. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Rieutord , H. -G. Ludwig , T. Roudier , A. Nordlund , R. Stein

Radiative hydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar surface convection have become an important tool for exploring the structure and gas dynamics in the envelopes and atmospheres of late-type stars and for improving our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Beeck , R. Collet , M. Steffen , M. Asplund , R. H. Cameron , B. Freytag , W. Hayek , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Schüssler

For the first time the electrohydrodynamic convection (EHC) of nematic liquid crystals is studied via fully nonlinear simulation. As a system of rich pattern-formation the EHC is mostly studied with negative nematic liquid crystals…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Kuang-Wu Lee , Thorsten Pöschel

In stars and planets natural processes heat convective flows in the bulk of a convective region rather than at hard boundaries. By characterizing how convective dynamics are determined by the strength of an internal heating source we can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Whitney T. Powers , Evan H. Anders , Benjamin P. Brown

Supermassive stars are Population III stars with masses exceeding $10^4\,M_{\odot}$ that could be the progenitors of the first supermassive black holes. Their interiors are in a regime where radiation pressure dominates the equation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Simon Blouin , Huaqing Mao , Tyrone E. Woods , Pavel Denissenkov , Paul R. Woodward , Falk Herwig

We explore the effects of rotation on convective carbon, oxygen, and silicon shell burning during the late stages of evolution in a 20Msun star. Using the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) we construct 1D stellar models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Sean M. Couch , W. David Arnett , F. X. Timmes

(Abridged) We describe the results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations designed to study turbulent convection in the stellar interiors, and compare them to stellar mixing-length theory (MLT). Simulations in 2D are significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Casey A. Meakin , David Arnett

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

We present extensive sets of stellar models for 0.8-9.0Msun in mass and -5 <= [Fe/H] <= -2 and Z = 0 in metallicity. The present work focuses on the evolutionary characteristics of hydrogen mixing into the He-flash convective zones during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Takuma Suda , Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

The global-scale dynamo action achieved in a simulation of a Sun-like star rotating at thrice the solar rate is assessed. The 3-D MHD Anelastic Spherical Harmonic (ASH) code, augmented with a viscosity minimization scheme, is employed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kyle Augustson , Sacha Brun , Mark Miesch , Juri Toomre

The cores of main sequence intermediate- and high-mass stars are convective. Mixing at the radiative-convective boundary, waves excited by the convection, and magnetic fields generated by convective dynamos all influence the main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Daniel Lecoanet , Philipp V. F. Edelmann
‹ Prev 1 4 5 6 7 8 10 Next ›