an update on convection zone modeling with the ash code
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An update on convection zone modeling with the ASH code. Mark Miesch HAO/NCAR Sacha Brun, Juri Toomre, Matt Browning, Marc DeRosa, Ben Brown, Nick Featherstone, Kyle Augustson. Oct, 2006. Outline. Convective patterns Mean Flows (DR & MC) Dynamo processes. Achievements Challenges - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
An update on convection zone modeling with the ASH code
Mark Miesch
HAO/NCAR
Sacha Brun, Juri Toomre, Matt Browning, Marc DeRosa,
Ben Brown, Nick Featherstone, Kyle Augustson
Oct, 2006
Outline
A.Convective patterns
B.Mean Flows (DR & MC)
C.Dynamo processes
Achievements Challenges Helioseismic
implications
What might giant cells look like?
Radial velocityr=0.98R
The ASH Code
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Look for Vorticity and Divergence in SSW maps?
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dv/d at r = 0.98R
(d = 14.6 Mm)
A better way to find NS downflow
lanes?
Summary: Convection StructureWhat might we look for in SSW maps?
Miesch Oct, 2006
• Coherent Structures– Downflow network– Persistent NS lanes (Lisle et al 2004)
• Correlations & Statistics– Cyclonic vorticity/horizontal convergence
(Gizon 2006, Komm et al 2006)
– Cool, vortical downflows
– Reynolds stresses <vv>?
– Spectra, pdfs, etc
• Evolution– Correlation timescales of days to weeks
– Prograde propagation of NS lanes
– Shearing and fragmentation of cellular flows
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Differential Rotation
r/R
(nhz)
Meridional Circulation
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v(m s-1)
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poleward
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Maintenance of Mean Flows: Dynamical balances
• Statistically steady• Neglect LF, VD• Rapid rotation CF >> RS• Ideal gas• Hydrostatic, adiabatic
background
(1) Meridional circulation = Reynolds stresses
Coriolis-induced tilting of
convective structures
(2) Thermal Wind balance (Taylor-Proudman
theorem)
DR, MC, RS, S are tied together by (1), (2)
Warm poles!S=constant
Lower BCS=S()
Lower BC
Thermal wind balance and coupling to the tachocline
Summary: Mean FlowsGuidance for helioseismology, dynamo
modeling
Miesch Oct, 2006
• Differential rotation– Reynolds stresses
– Latitudinal entropy/temperature variations
– Tachocline may play an important role in maintaining global profile
• Meridional Circulation– Delicate balance between large forces
– Large fluctuations in space and time
– Poleward circulation in the Sun may be a surface effect - we need deeper inversions!
DR, MC, RS, S are tied together by dynamical
balances
Dynamo Action in Global Convection Simulations
Sustained Toroidal/Poloidal field generationComplex spatial and temporal dependence
MagneticEnergy density
Tachocline promotes more organized fields
Pumping, amplification, and organization of toroidal fields
Mid-CZ Overshoot region/tachocline
Summary: Dynamo ProcessesWhere do global convection simulations
stand?
Miesch Oct, 2006
• Achievements– Sustained field generation by turbulent convection (0-1)– Pumping downward into a tachocline (2)– Amplification by rotational shear (3)
• Challenges– Formation of toroidal bands (4)– Flux destabilization and
emergence (4-7)– Activity cycle (8)– Tachocline dynamics
• Instabilities• Penetrative Convection• Waves & Oscillations• Confinement