A large-eddy simulation of turbulent compressible convection: Differential rotation in the solar convection zone

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 321, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 723-732

  Robinson, Francis J ^a,b   Chan, Kwing L ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: rotation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ANGULAR VELOCITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW; THERMODYNAMICS;

DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS EQUATION; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; REYNOLDS STRESS; ROTATION AXES; SOLAR CONVECTION ZONE; SPHERICAL SHELL; SUN: ROTATIONS;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 0042733435     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04036.x     Document Type: Article

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