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Dynamical Instabilities in Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

P. Ledoux
P. Ledoux*
Affiliation:
Institut d’Astrophysique, Université de Liège

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The linear dynamical instability at the origin of convection in stars is reviewed and shown to depend essentially on the sign of which is the usual argument of convection criteria. The case of two or more superadiabatic regions separated by subadiabatic ones might well deserve more detailed attention.

Once this instability is partially removed by the setting in of convection its effects must be balanced by dissipation terms if a stationary state is to result. This yields the value of a Rayleigh number.

If energy generation is included in the non-conservative terms, possibilities are somewhat enriched including a case of dynamical instability in presence of A<0 (usually stable) but very small in absolute value.

Type
II. Linear Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 38: Problems of Stellar Convection , 1977 , pp. 87 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © 1976

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