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The Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Onset of Thermal Convection when Constant Flux Boundary Conditions Apply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. O. Murphy
J. O. Murphy*
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Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton
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The energy passing through the boundaries of a convective zone in a star, in an outward radial direction per second, must in total be equal to the luminosity of the star, provided of course that this zone does not encompass nuclear energy producing regions. If, in an endeavour to establish the nature of the convective motions in this zone, a section of the zone is modelled by considering steady cellular convection in a horizontal layer of Boussinesq fluid, it is on the basis of an average energy flux being imposed. Moreover, the sum of the conductive and convective heat fluxes is represented by the Nusselt number, which is specified and constant for the zone.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 164 - 165
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1977

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