Angular Momentum Transport in Convectively Unstable Shear Flows
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Käpylä, Petri J., Axel Brandenburg, Maarit J. Korpi, Jan E. Snellman, and Ramesh Narayan. 2010. “Angular Momentum Transport in Convectively Unstable Shear Flows.” The Astrophysical Journal 719 (1) (July 16): 67–76. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/719/1/67.Abstract
Angular momentum transport due to hydrodynamic turbulent convection is studied using local three-dimensional numerical simulations employing the shearing box approximation. We determine the turbulent viscosity from nonrotating runs over a range of values of the shear parameter and use a simple analytical model in order to extract the non-diffusive contribution (Λ-effect) to the stress in runs where rotation is included. Our results suggest that the turbulent viscosity is on the order of the mixing length estimate and weakly affected by rotation. The Λ-effect is non-zero and a factor of 2–4 smaller than the turbulent viscosity in the slow rotation regime. We demonstrate that for Keplerian shear, the angular momentum transport can change sign and be outward when the rotation period is greater than the turnover time, i.e., when the Coriolis number is below unity. This result seems to be relatively independent of the value of the Rayleigh numberOther Sources
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