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Viscosity, Thermal and Electrical Conductivities in Turbulent Convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Wasaburo Unno
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Tokyo
Tohru Nakano
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, Chuō Univ.
Masa-aki Kondo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth Science and Astronomy, College of General Education, Univ. of Tokyo

Abstract

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Turbulent diffusivities are often used for representing nonlinear interactions of turbulent elements on the motion of a larger scale. In turbulent convection, the average life of a representative element is substantially lengthened by bouyancy. Taking this effect into account, we calculate turbulent viscosities, thermal and electrical conductivities for Boussinesq fluids on the basis of a spectral theory of turbulent convection (Nakano, Fukushima, Unno, and Kondo, 1979). The effect of bouyancy results in the increase of turbulent diffusivities, compared with the case without bouyancy. We also propose the generalization of the method such that a stellar convection zone can be theoretically constructed without recourse to the mixing length.

Type
Session 6: Effect of Rotation and Magnetic Field in Stellar Evolution
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

References

Nakano, T., Fukushima, T., Unno, W., and Kondo, M. 1979, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 31, 713.Google Scholar