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Convection and Supergranulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. Van der Borght  and
M. T. Fox
R. Van der Borght
Affiliation:
Monash University
M. T. Fox
Affiliation:
Monash University
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In a previous paper (Van der Borght 1979) the techniques developed for studying finite amplitude convection in a compressible medium were applied to an investigation of super-granulation in the Sun. Assuming that the instability is due to He+ recombination, a model was derived which seems to indicate that convection in the upper 8000 km of the Sun may occur as an overtone and not as a fundamental mode. This investigation yielded results which were very close to those obtained from standard mixing-length theory.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , 1980 , pp. 43 - 45
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1980

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