4 papers
Rapidly Rotating Wall-Mode Convection
Geoffrey M. Vasil, Keaton J. Burns, Daniel Lecoanet +3
In the rapidly rotating limit, we derive a balanced set of reduced equations governing the strongly nonlinear development of the convective wall-mode instability in the interior of…
Morphological Regimes of Rotating Moist Convection
Whitney T. Powers, Adrian E. Fraser, Evan H. Anders +2
Moist convection is a physical process where the latent heat released by condensation acts as a buoyancy source that can enhance or even trigger an overturning convective instabili…
3D Simulations Demonstrate Propagating Thermohaline Convection for Polluted White Dwarfs
Imogen G. Cresswell, Adrian E. Fraser, Evan B. Bauer +2
Polluted white dwarfs (WDs) with small surface convection zones deposit significant concentrations of heavy elements to the underlying radiative interior, presumably driving thermo…
On the Linear Stability of Partially and Fully Saturated Atmospheres to Moist Convection
Jeffrey S. Oishi, Benjamin P. Brown
We present a linear analysis of a minimal model of moist convection under a variety of atmospheric conditions. The stationary solutions that we analyze include both fully saturated…