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EAS Publications Series
Volume 82, 2019
Astro Fluid: An International Conference in Memory of Professor Jean-Paul Zahn's Great Scientific Achievements
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| Page(s) | 167 - 173 | |
| Section | Seismology and Stellar Structure, Evolution and Rotation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1982016 | |
| Published online | 21 June 2019 | |
A.S. Brun, S. Mathis, C. Charbonnel and B. Dubrulle (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 82 (2019) 167-173
Vertical shear mixing in stellar radiative zones
1 Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/DRF – CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, IRFU/SAp Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2 Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748, Garching bei München, Germany
Jean-Paul Zahn’s formalism for vertical shear mixing is used in several stellar evolution codes, but the physics of the shear instability in stellar radiative zones is still not completely understood. Over the last few years, numerical simulations have provided new constraints on the shear instability, including the effect of thermal diffusion and chemical stratification. We present here new simulations that show the effect of viscosity on the vertical turbulent transport due to the shear instability.
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