Overview

The existence of strongly convecting layers in the Sun and stars provides us with a natural laboratory for the study of dynamical processes in intensely turbulent, magnetized, rotating, radiating fluids. Helioseismology h as now given us a tool to measure the detailed properties of solar convection beneath the visible Sun, and thus to test our understanding of the nature of convection and of its influence on stellar structure and the radiative magnetohydrodynamics of solar convection. Presenting and incorporating the newest results from numerical hydrodynamic simulations and helioseismic observations, these contributed papers present the very latest developments in each of these fields.

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Author:   F.P. Pijpers ,  Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard ,  C.S. Rosenthal
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   225
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.400kg
ISBN:  

9780792348528

ISBN 10:   0792348524
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   31 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Global Structure.- Effects of convection on the mean solar structure.- Convective Overshooting and Mixing.- Effect of turbulent pressure on solar oscillation frequencies.- Parameters of the solar convection zone in evolutionary and seismic models.- A calibration of mixing length theory based on RHD simulations of solar-type convection.- A precision-controlled solar model with realistic subatmospheric stratification.- Solar models with convective overshoot.- Near-surface constraints on the structure of stellar convection zones.- II: Basic Properties of Convection.- Stellar Convection; General Properties.- Compressible Turbulence.- Sound speed variations near the photosphere due to entropy perturbations in 3d numerical experiments.- A hydrodynamic simulation of the radiation-convection transition region.- Photospheric Downflows: How deep, how coherent, how important?.- x201C;Mesogranulation” — A Convective Or An Oscillatory Phenomenon?.- III: Convective Effects on Oscillations.- Convective Effects on Mode Frequencies.- Excitation and Damping of Solar Acoustic Oscillations.- On Nonlinear Solar Oscillations.- Effects of Convection on Solar p Modes.- The theory of Anisotropic P-mode Propagation in the Solar Convection Zone.- IV: Rotation and Magnetic Fields.- Rotation and angular momentum transport.- The Solar Dynamo Problem.- Differential rotation in turbulent compressible convection.- The effects of rotation on the global dynamics of turbulent convection.- The effects of rotation on convective overshoot.- Two-dimensional measurements of Sunspot Oscillations.- V: Local Properties of Convection.- Acoustic Tomography of Solar Convective Flows and Structures.- Dynamic Behavior of the Solar Atmosphere.- The influence of radiative damping on the modes of a magnetizedisothermal atmosphere.- Dynamical Relations between Photosphere and Chromosphere.- Photospheric flows as measured by SOI/MDI.- The Dutch Open Telescope.- The Magneto-Optical Filter in Napoli: Perspectives and Test Observations.- VI: Synthesis.- Synthesis Convection, Structure and Evolution.- Index of Authors.- Index of Keywords.

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...the editing is exemplary as well, for which the editors deserve a compliment. All articles are really very informative and written in a clear style by experts. It is obligatory reading for researchers and students working in this field.' Space Science, 853/4 (1998)

` ...the editing is exemplary as well, for which the editors deserve a compliment. All articles are really very informative and written in a clear style by experts. It is obligatory reading for researchers and students working in this field.' Space Science, 853/4 (1998)

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