Nonlinear simulations of the convection-pulsation coupling

Details Nonlinear simulations of the convection-pulsation coupling Nonlinear simulations of the convection-pulsation coupling

2011-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/1110.2010v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, sf2a proceeding

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In cold Cepheids close to the red edge of the classical instability strip, a strong coupling between the stellar pulsations and the surface convective motions occurs. This coupling is by now poorly described by 1-D models of convection, the so-called "time-dependent convection models" (TDC). The intrinsic weakness of such models comes from the large number of unconstrained free parameters entering in the description of turbulent convection. A way to overcome these limits is to compute two-dimensional direct simulations (DNS), in which all the nonlinearities are correctly solved. Two-dimensional DNS of the convection-pulsation coupling are presented here. In an appropriate parameter regime, convective motions can actually quench the radial pulsations of the star, as suspected in Cepheids close to the red edge of the instability strip. These nonlinear simulations can also be used to determine the limits and the relevance of the TDC models.

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