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Problems of Stellar Convection

Proceedings of the Colloquium No. 38 of the International Astronomical Union Held in Nice, August 16-20, 1976

Editors:

Edward A. Spiegel,
Jean-Paul Zahn

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 71)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

Front Matter

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Introductory remarks
- E. A. Spiegel
Pages 1-3
Historical reminiscences of the origins of stellar convection theory (1930 – 1945)
- Ludwig Biermann
Pages 4-14
The current state of stellar mixing-length theory
- Douglas Gough
Pages 15-56
On taking mixing-length theory seriously
- D. O. Gough, E. A. Spiegel
Pages 57-62
Observations bearing on the theory of stellar convection II
- Erika Böhm-Vitense
Pages 63-86
Dynamical instabilities in stars
- P. Ledoux
Pages 87-102
Observations bearing on convection
- K.H. Böhm
Pages 103-118
Evolution pattern of the exploding granules
- O. Namba, R. van Rijsbergen
Pages 119-125
Granulation observations
- A. Nesis
Pages 126-127
Some aspects of convection in meteorology
- R. S. Lindzen
Pages 128-141
Numerical methods in convection theory
- N. O. Weiss
Pages 142-150
Compressible convection
- Eric Graham
Pages 151-155
Convection in rotating stars
- F. H. Busse
Pages 156-175
Magnetic fields and convection
- N. O. Weiss
Pages 176-187
Axisymmetric convection with a magnetic field
- D. J. Galloway
Pages 188-194
Convective dynamos
- Stephen Childress
Pages 195-224
Penetrative convection in stars
- Jean-Paul Zahn
Pages 225-234
The boundaries of a convective zone
- A. Maeder
Pages 235-236
Convective overshooting in the solar photosphere; A model granular velocity field
- Åke Nordlund
Pages 237-238

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Book Title: Problems of Stellar Convection
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Colloquium No. 38 of the International Astronomical Union Held in Nice, August 16-20, 1976
Editors: Edward A. Spiegel, Jean-Paul Zahn
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08532-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1977
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-35982-1Published: 12 August 2005
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Fluid- and Aerodynamics

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