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太阳表面对流中次表面流的作用:模拟超颗粒流和大尺度流的谱

The Role of Subsurface Flows in Solar Surface Convection: Modeling the Spectrum of Supergranular and Larger Scale Flows

J. W. Lord, R. H. Cameron, M. P. Rast, M. Rempel, T. Roudier

摘要:

我们的太阳水平速度功率谱模型的尺度大于颗粒使用两个组件的近似质量连续性方程。该模型采用四倍的密度尺度高度作为每个深度的垂直运动的积分(驱动)尺度。比这更大的尺度从更深的层随高度衰减。那些较小的假设遵循Kolomogorov湍流级联,在垂直对流运动的总功率匹配所需的混合长度公式传输的太阳光度。这些模型组件验证使用大规模辐射流体动力学模拟。我们得出两个主要结论:1。该模型预测显着更多的功率在低波数比在太阳光球水平速度谱中观察到的。2.电离在塑造观测到的太阳速度谱中起着次要的作用,通过减少部分氦电离区域的对流振幅。在采用真实状态方程的完全非线性三维辐射流体动力学模拟中也可以看到过量的低波数功率。这增加了最近的其他证据,表明太阳大规模对流运动的振幅明显低于预期。采用相同的功能跟踪算法与观测数据的模拟输出,我们表明,所观察到的低波数功率可以再现在流体动力学模型,如果大尺度模式的振幅在深层被人为地减少。由于大尺度模式的振幅降低,超颗粒尺度和更小的模式仍然是重要的对流热通量,即使在深层,这表明小尺度对流相关性保持通过大部分的太阳对流区。

英文摘要:

We model the solar horizontal velocity power spectrum at scales larger than granulation using a two-component approximation to the mass continuity equation. The model takes four times the density scale height as the integral (driving) scale of the vertical motions at each depth. Scales larger than this decay with height from the deeper layers. Those smaller are assumed to follow a Kolomogorov turbulent cascade, with the total power in the vertical convective motions matching that required to transport the solar luminosity in a mixing length formulation. These model components are validated using large scale radiative hydrodynamic simulations. We reach two primary conclusions: 1. The model predicts significantly more power at low wavenumbers than is observed in the solar photospheric horizontal velocity spectrum. 2. Ionization plays a minor role in shaping the observed solar velocity spectrum by reducing convective amplitudes in the regions of partial helium ionization. The excess low wavenumber power is also seen in the fully nonlinear three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamic simulations employing a realistic equation of state. This adds to other recent evidence suggesting that the amplitudes of large scale convective motions in the Sun are significantly lower than expected. Employing the same feature tracking algorithm used with observational data on the simulation output, we show that the observed low wavenumber power can be reproduced in hydrodynamic models if the amplitudes of large scale modes in the deep layers are artificially reduced. Since the large scale modes have reduced amplitudes, modes on the scale of supergranulation and smaller remain important to convective heat flux even in the deep layers, suggesting that small scale convective correlations are maintained through the bulk of the solar convection zone.

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