Magnetism, dynamo action and the solar-stellar connection

AS Brun, MK Browning - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2017 - Springer
The Sun and other stars are magnetic: magnetism pervades their interiors and affects their
evolution in a variety of ways. In the Sun, both the fields themselves and their influence on …

Colloquium: Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun

J Schumacher, KR Sreenivasan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The Sun is our nearest star; it is also the most important star that determines life on Earth. A
large variety of phenomena observed on the Sun's surface, with potential impact on Earth, is …

The origin of the Moon within a terrestrial synestia

SJ Lock, ST Stewart, MI Petaev… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The giant impact hypothesis remains the leading theory for lunar origin. However, current
models struggle to explain the Moon's composition and isotopic similarity with Earth. Here …

Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay

AJ Barker - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range 0.1–1.6 M⊙ throughout their
evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial …

Connections between nonrotating, slowly rotating, and rapidly rotating turbulent convection transport scalings

JM Aurnou, S Horn, K Julien - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
In this paper, we investigate and develop scaling laws as a function of external
nondimensional control parameters for heat and momentum transport for nonrotating, slowly …

Approaching the asymptotic regime of rapidly rotating convection: boundary layers versus interior dynamics

S Stellmach, M Lischper, K Julien, G Vasil, JS Cheng… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection is studied by combining results from direct
numerical simulations (DNS), laboratory experiments, and asymptotic modeling. The …

Simulations of solar and stellar dynamos and their theoretical interpretation

PJ Käpylä, MK Browning, AS Brun, G Guerrero… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
We review the state of the art of three dimensional numerical simulations of solar and stellar
dynamos. We summarize fundamental constraints of numerical modelling and the …

Slow convection and fast rotation in crystallization-driven white dwarf dynamos

S Ginzburg, J Fuller, A Kawka… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It has been recently suggested that white dwarfs generate magnetic fields in a process
analogous to the Earth. The crystallization of the core creates a compositional inversion that …

Rotation suppresses giant-scale solar convection

GM Vasil, K Julien… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The observational absence of giant convection cells near the Sun's outer surface is a long-
standing conundrum for solar modelers. We herein propose an explanation. Rotation …

Rotating convective turbulence in Earth and planetary cores

JM Aurnou, MA Calkins, JS Cheng, K Julien… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2015 - Elsevier
An accurate description of turbulent core convection is necessary in order to build robust
models of planetary core processes. Towards this end, we focus here on the physics of …