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Mixing length model of convection in stellar cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Ian W Roxburgh
Affiliation:
Queen Mary, University of London, UK email: i.w.roxburgh@qmul.ac.uk
Friedrich Kupka
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany email: fk@mpa-garching.mpg.de
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Abstract

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The standard mixing length model of convection is ill behaved at the centre of a star since the pressure scale height Hp=P/(ρg)→∞ as r→0, and the convective flux remains non zero at r=0. We propose a modifcation of this model of convection that has the correct behaviour in the central regions of a star and smoothly changes to the standard MLT away from the centre.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

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