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Large Scale Convection in Stars : Towards a Model for the Action of Coherent Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Michel Rieutord  and
Jean-Paul Zahn
Michel Rieutord
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi Pyrenees, 14 av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France CERFACS, 42 av. Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France
Jean-Paul Zahn
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi Pyrenees, 14 av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France

Abstract

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We show that, representing the descending fluid in a convection zone by a porous medium, the differential rotation of the (rising) fluid is very close to that in an axisymmetric model of the convection zone with anisotropic viscosity.

Type
Part I Convection and turbulence as the basis of magnetic activity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 130: The Sun and Cool Stars: activity, magnetism, dynamos , 1991 , pp. 33 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1991

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