L19 Convection

L19 Convection#

Week 11, Tuesday

Material covered and references#

  • Is the energy always transported by radiation?

We discuss the concept of convection, and develop a criteria to evaluate the stability of radiative energy transport.

You will find a nice description of observational evidences of convection for the Sun in Mullan Chap.6

In the textbooks:

  • Leblanc 5.3

  • Hansen 4.2.1 for the del_rad, Chap 5 for convection, but lot of details about the mixing length theory.

  • Kip chap 6 and 7

  • McDo chap 4

  • Mullan chap 6 and 7. Very interesting alternative approach based on thermodynamics.