Coupling between turbulence and solar-like oscillations: a combined Lagrangian PDF/SPH approach. I -- The stochastic wave equation

Abstract

Aims. This series of papers aims at building a new formalism specifically tailored to study the impact of turbulence on the global modes of oscillation in solar-like stars. This first paper aims at deriving a linear wave equation that directly and consistently contains the turbulence as an input to the model, and therefore naturally contains the information on the coupling between the turbulence and the modes, through the stochasticity of the equations. Methods. We use a Lagrangian stochastic model of turbulence based on Probability Density Function methods to describe the evolution of the properties of individual fluid particles through stochastic differential equations. We then transcribe these stochastic differential equations from a Lagrangian frame to an Eulerian frame, more adapted to the analysis of stellar oscillations. We combine this method with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, where all the mean fields appearing in the Lagrangian stochastic model are estimated directly from the set of fluid particles themselves, through the use of a weighting kernel function allowing to filter the particles present in any given vicinity. The resulting stochastic differential equations on Eulerian variables are then linearised. Results. We obtain a stochastic, linear wave equation governing the time evolution of the relevant wave variables, while at the same time containing the effect of turbulence. The wave equation generalises the classical, unperturbed propagation of acoustic waves in a stratified medium to a form that, by construction, accounts for the impact of turbulence on the mode in a consistent way. The effect of turbulence consists in a non-homogeneous forcing term, responsible for the stochastic driving of the mode, and a stochastic perturbation to the homogeneous part of the wave equation, responsible for both the damping of the mode and the modal surface effects.

Paper accepted for publication in A&A. 18 pages (12 without Appendices), 1 figure. Typos corrected

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