On a long-term dynamics of the magnetised solar tachocline

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20066357zbMATH Open1116.85004arXivastro-ph/0612085OpenAlexW3098051772WikidataQ68599258 ScholiaQ68599258MaRDI QIDQ3590845FDOQ3590845

Authors: Nicolas Leprovost, Eun-Jin Kim 

Publication date: 3 September 2007

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the confinement and long-term dynamics of the magnetised solar tachocline. Starting from first principles, we derive the values of turbulent transport coefficients and then explore the implications for the confinement and long-term dynamics of the tachocline. For reasonable parameter values, the turbulent eddy viscosity is found to be negative, with turbulence enhancing the radial shear in the tachocline. Both magnetic diffusivity and thermal diffusivity are severely quenched, with the values much smaller than the magnitude of the eddy viscosity. The effect of the meridional circulation on momentum transport via the hyperviscosity becomes important when the radial shear becomes large (larger than the presently inferred value) due to the negative viscosity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612085

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulencemagnetohydrodynamics (MHD)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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