Sensitivity to luminosity, centrifugal force, and boundary conditions in spherical shell convection

DOI10.1080/03091929.2019.1571586zbMATH Open1482.76065arXiv1807.09309OpenAlexW2953173374WikidataQ114640067 ScholiaQ114640067MaRDI QIDQ5065690FDOQ5065690

Authors: P. J. Käpylä, Frederick A. Gent, N. Olspert, Maarit J. Käpylä, A. Brandenburg 

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We test the sensitivity of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulent convection simulations with respect to Mach number, thermal and magnetic boundary conditions, and the centrifugal force. We find that varying the luminosity, which also controls the Mach number, has only a minor effect on the large-scale dynamics. A similar conclusion can also be drawn from the comparison of two formulations of the lower magnetic boundary condition with either vanishing electric field or current density. The centrifugal force has an effect on the solutions, but only if its magnitude with respect to acceleration due to gravity is by two orders of magnitude greater than in the Sun. Finally, we find that the parameterisation of the photospheric physics, either by an explicit cooling term or enhanced radiative diffusion, is more important than the thermal boundary condition. In particular, runs with cooling tend to lead to more anisotropic convection and stronger deviations from the Taylor-Proudman state. In summary, the fully compressible approach taken here with the Pencil Code is found to be valid, while still allowing the disparate timescales to be taken into account.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09309

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zbMATH Keywords

convectionmagnetohydrodynamicsturbulencedynamos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convective turbulence (76F35)

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• The time step constraint in radiation hydrodynamics
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• Effect of the radiative background flux in convection

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• EULAG

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