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Depth Dependence on the Various Scale Lengths in a Quasi-Vitense Model of the Solar Convection Zone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

B. E. Waters
B. E. Waters*
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Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne
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As has been previously stated (van der Borght) the lengths l 1, l 2, l3 and l 4 are functions of and so a discussion of these lengths is in fact a discussion of the f’s. For a first approach to a determination of these f’s, a standard Vitense2 model of the convection zone—with mixing length l, is used. We assume that l = H. The variables we need are kz , which are the vertical wave number associated with the characteristic eddy, the average vertical velocity, and the average (non-dimensional) temperature fluctuation. These quantities are approximated, using the following relations

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1971 , pp. 48 - 50
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1971

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