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Numerical Simulation of the Solar Granulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The solar granulation has been simulated by numerical solution of the multidimensional, time-dependent, nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations applied to the solar atmosphere. Granules may be explained as buoyantly rising bubbles created at the level where T = 8000 K, and which have collapsed into vortex rings. The calculation is in quantitative agreement with observations and has a number of implications for solar physics and convection theory.
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- II. Solar Pulsations
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 58: Stellar Hydrodynamics , August 1980 , pp. 293 - 299
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- Copyright © Reidel 1980
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