Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2006
Numerical simulations have become one of the main tools in the researchon stellar convection zones and they can be expected to become veryimportant for the study of the convection-diffusion interaction as well.In this review, I will first provide some historical background andthen select a few sample problems where numerical simulations of stellarconvection have provided useful results or are expected to do so inthe near future: solar granulation, interacting convection zones, andsemi-convection.