Linear hydrodynamical equations coupled with radiative transfer in a non-isothermal atmosphere

✍ Scribed by B. Schmieder

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 922 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00159919

✦ Synopsis

A method coupling the hydrodynamical equations and radiative transfer in a realistic solar model atmosphere is described. The influence of the temperature gradient of the model and the radiative dissipation is pointed out.

The effect of the large temperature gradient is important in the layers where the optical depth ~'5ooo is greater than 0.5; the ratio between the amplitude of the temperature and the velocity fluctuations decreases with the altitude by a factor 2 between ~" = 1 and ~, = 0.5 and in the case of the acoustic waves, the phase shift between these fluctuations is small.

The radiative energy loss in the thick layers (rsooo = 1) leads to a decrease of the vertical phase velocity of the waves and to a damping of their amplitudes in the layers of intermediate optical depth (10-2< ~5000 < 0.5). The effect of the dissipation is negligible in the thin layers (~50oo < 10-2).