Mixing length model of convection in stellar cores
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Convection in Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- May 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307000233
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..239...98R
- Keywords:
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- Convection;
- stars: interiors