Hunting down giant cells in deep stellar convective zones

Nicolas Bessolaz, Allan Sacha Brun
2010 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union  
Abstract3D high resolution simulations for the convective zone of a 4Myr old 0.7 M⊙ pre-main sequence star in gravitational contraction are carried out with different radial density contrast using the pseudo spectral ASH code (Brun et al. 2004). We extract giant cells signal from the complex surface convective patterns by using a wavelet analysis. We then characterize them by estimating their lifetime and rotation rate according to the density contrast.
doi:10.1017/s1743921311017819 fatcat:liktekl2lbhptophzvau6jxx4e