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Numerical Simulation of the Solar Granulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Lawrence D. Cloutman
Lawrence D. Cloutman*
Affiliation:
Theoretical Division, Group T-3 University of California Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545

Abstract

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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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Type
II. Solar Pulsations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 58: Stellar Hydrodynamics , August 1980 , pp. 293 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980

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