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Depth Dependence of Physical Parameters Associated with Convection in the Solar Atmosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

B. E. Waters
B. E. Waters*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne
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It has been often suggested that the solar granulation is essentially a turbulent convective phenomenon. It is then worthwhile to investigate steady state, finite-amplitude convection in the outer layers of the solar convection zone. On the basis that the convection zone is turbulent, we will define an eddy viscosity; and for the present we will consider only the first 300 km of the convection zone. This value is predicted by van der Borght using an asymptotic analysis of convection at high Rayleigh number—provided we assume the horizontal dimension of the cellular pattern to be ˜1000 km.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1971 , pp. 50 - 51
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1971

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