2006/05/04 by Nicolas Leprovost, Eun-Jin Kim, Eun‐jin Kim · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph #physics.class-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065265
published as Astron.Astrophys. 456 (2006) 617
arxiv created 2006/05/04 · openalex publication_date 2006/08/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Aims.We provide a consistent theory of the tachocline confinement (or anisotropic momentum transport) within a hydrodynamical turbulence model. The goal is to explain helioseismological data, which show that the solar tachocline thickness is at most 5% of the solar radius, despite the fact that, due to radiative spreading, this transition layer should have thickened to a much more significant value during the sun's evolution.