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GLOBAL AND LOCAL SIMULATIONS OF THE SOLAR DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION

Nic Brummell, Tom Clune, Julian Elliott, Mark Miesch and Juri Toomre, University of Colorado

NASA HPCC/ESS Cooperative Agreement

Turbulent Convection and Dynamos in Stars

• Differential rotation of the convection zone is an essential ingredient of the large-scale cyclic solar dynamo.

• The nature of the differential rotation is not well understood.

• Global and local models of rotating compressible convection combine to provide greater insight into the possible causes.

LOCAL MODELS OF COMPRESSIBLE CONVECTION

GLOBAL MODELS OF ANELASTIC CONVECTION

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