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Structure of the solar photosphere studied from the radiation hydrodynamics code ANTARES
Turbulent Compressible Convection with Rotation - Penetration above a Convection Zone
We perform Large eddy simulations of turbulent compressible convection in
stellar-type convection zones by solving the Navi\'{e}r-Stokes equations in
three dimensions. We estimate the extent of penetration into the stable layer
above a stellar-type convection zone by varying the rotation rate
({\boldmath}), the inclination of the rotation vector () and
the relative stability () of the upper stable layer. The computational
domain is a rectangular box in an f-plane configuration and is divided into two
regions of unstable and stable stratification with the stable layer placed
above the convectively unstable layer. Several models have been computed and
the penetration distance into the stable layer above the convection zone is
estimated by determining the position where time averaged kinetic energy flux
has the first zero in the upper stable layer. The vertical grid spacing in all
the model is non-uniform, and is less in the upper region so that the flows are
better resolved in the region of interest. We find that the penetration
distance increases as the rotation rate increases for the case when the
rotation vector is aligned with the vertical axis. However, with the increase
in the stability of the upper stable layer, the upward penetration distance
decreases. Since we are not able to afford computations with finer resolution
for all the models, we compute a number of models to see the effect of
increased resolution on the upward penetration. In addition, we estimate the
upper limit on the upward convective penetration from stellar convective cores.Comment: Accepted for Publication in Asttrophysics & Space Scienc
Numerical Simulations of Solar and Stellar Convection using the ANTARES code
The ANTARES code (A Numerical Tool for Astrophysical RESearch) is designed for doing 1D,
2D and 3D stellar (radiation-, magneto-) hydrodynamics with realistic microphysics,
applying various high-resolution numerical schemes, optionally local grid refinement and
works with rectilinear or spherical coordinates. – We present results on turbulent solar
granulation flows which have been done in 2D and 3D and comment on our simulations of the
pulsation-convection interaction in Cepheid variables, presently 2D