Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-16
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 329 (2002) 1
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 15 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.04961.x
Gough & McIntyre have suggested that the dynamics of the solar tachocline are dominated by the advection-diffusion balance between the differential rotation, a large-scale primordial field and baroclinicly driven meridional motions. This paper presents the first part of a study of the tachocline, in which a model of the rotation profile below the convection zone is constructed along the lines suggested by Gough & McIntyre and solved numerically. In this first part, a reduced model of the tachocline is derived in which the effects of compressibility and energy transport on the system are neglected; the meridional motions are driven instead by Ekman-Hartmann pumping. It is shown that there exists only a narrow range of magnetic field strengths for which the system can achieve a nearly uniform rotation. The results are discussed with respect to observations and to the limitations of this initial approach. A following paper combines the effects of realistic baroclinic driving and stratification with a model that follows closely the lines of work of Gough & McIntyre.
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