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Convection in Stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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It is likely that in most stars certain layers, either in the interior or outer regions, will be unstable against convection and the study of energy transport by convection has raised considerable interest since the early days of this century when Karl Schwarzschild derived his criterion for deciding whether a certain region is in convective or radiative equilibrium.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 91 - 95
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