Convection in the Presence of an Inclined Axis of Rotation with Applications to the Sun

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Sep 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007soph..245...27b&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 245, Issue 1, pp.27-36

Physics

4

Supergranulation, Rotation

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Thermal convection in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below and rotating about an arbitrary axis is studied analytically with the attention focused on mean flows and drifts generated by the convection velocity field. Mean flows occur in both horizontal directions when the angle between the rotation vector and the vertical is finite but less than 90°. In the case of a hexagonal convection pattern, a wavelike drift is found in the presence of a horizontal component of rotation. Applications to solar convection are discussed. Considering the simplicity of the model the agreement with observations is surprisingly good.

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