2022/11/15 by Haibin Chen, Rong Wu, Chen, Haibin +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Planetary Science and Exploration #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.08113
openalex publication_date 2022/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The rotation of granules shows thermal properties similar to the thermal motion of molecules, which effects convection criterion and solar granule size.The granular rotation generates the rotational additional pressure and corresponding rotational equivalent temperature in the spherically symmetric expansion of the granule.The rotation equivalent temperature represented by the rotational speed and the granular size is combined with the Schwarzschild criterion to obtain a new convection criterion determined jointly by the granular size, temperature gradient, and rotational speed gradient.In most of the solar convection zone, the convection is driven by the temperature gradient and suppressed by the rotational speed gradient.In the solar quiet region, the larger the granular size, the weaker the convection.The small granules with the sizes smaller than the critical size are in natural convection, while the large granules with the sizes larger than the critical size are in forced convection.In the solar active region, the larger the rotational speed, the smaller the critical size and the temperature.So sunspots have smaller granules and lower temperatures.