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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

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Edward A. Spiegel
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  2. 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)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introductory remarks

    • E. A. Spiegel
    Pages 1-3

  3. Historical reminiscences of the origins of stellar convection theory (1930 – 1945)

    • Ludwig Biermann
    Pages 4-14

  4. The current state of stellar mixing-length theory

    • Douglas Gough
    Pages 15-56

  5. On taking mixing-length theory seriously

    • D. O. Gough, E. A. Spiegel
    Pages 57-62

  6. Observations bearing on the theory of stellar convection II

    • Erika Böhm-Vitense
    Pages 63-86

  7. Dynamical instabilities in stars

    • P. Ledoux
    Pages 87-102

  8. Observations bearing on convection

    • K.H. Böhm
    Pages 103-118

  9. Evolution pattern of the exploding granules

    • O. Namba, R. van Rijsbergen
    Pages 119-125

  10. Granulation observations

    • A. Nesis
    Pages 126-127

  11. Some aspects of convection in meteorology

    • R. S. Lindzen
    Pages 128-141

  12. Numerical methods in convection theory

    • N. O. Weiss
    Pages 142-150

  13. Compressible convection

    • Eric Graham
    Pages 151-155

  14. Convection in rotating stars

    • F. H. Busse
    Pages 156-175

  15. Magnetic fields and convection

    • N. O. Weiss
    Pages 176-187

  16. Axisymmetric convection with a magnetic field

    • D. J. Galloway
    Pages 188-194

  17. Convective dynamos

    • Stephen Childress
    Pages 195-224

  18. Penetrative convection in stars

    • Jean-Paul Zahn
    Pages 225-234

  19. The boundaries of a convective zone

    • A. Maeder
    Pages 235-236

  20. Convective overshooting in the solar photosphere; A model granular velocity field

    • Åke Nordlund
    Pages 237-238
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