We constructed hydrodynamical model atmospheres for mid M-type main-, as well as pre-main-sequence objects. Despite the complex chemistry encountered in such cool atmospheres a reasonably accurate representation of the radiative transfer is possible. The detailed treatment of the interplay between radiation and convection in the hydrodynamical models allows to study processes usually not access...

The behavior of rotating and non-rotating aggregated convection is examined at various horizontal resolutions using the hypohydrostatic, or Reduced Acceleration in the VErtical (RAVE), rescaling. This modification of the equations of motion reduces the scale separation between convective and larger-scale motions, enabling the simultaneous and explicit representation of both types of flow in a s...

Tropical deep convection exhibits complex organization over a wide range of scales. This study investigates the relationships between the spatial organization of deep convection and the large-scale atmospheric state. By using several satellite datasets and reanalyses, and by defining a simple diagnostic of convective aggregation, relationships between the degree of convective aggregation and th...

Buoyancy and velocity scales for dry convection in statistical equilibrium were derived in the early twentieth century by Prandtl, but the scaling of convective velocity and buoyancy, as well as the fractional area coverage of convective clouds, is still unresolved for moist convection. In this paper, high-resolution simulations of an atmosphere in radiative–convective equilibrium are performed...

This paper reports on novel thermal testbeds with embedded micropin-fin heat sinks that were designed and microfabricated in silicon. Two micropin-fin arrays were presented, each with a nominal pin height of 200 lm and pin diameters of 90 lm and 30 lm. Singlephase and two-phase thermal testing of the micropin-fin array heat sinks were performed using de-ionized (DI) water as the coolant. The te...

Abstract. The effects of radiative energy exchange on the convective instability of a weak field magnetic structure, which lead to a prediction and a physical explanation of the magnetic flux dependent field strength, are examined in detail using a real model stratification for the photospheric and convection zone structure of the Sun. Adopting the generalised Eddington approximation for the ra...

I present work on several topics related to land-atmosphere interaction and radiativeconvective equilibrium: the first two research chapters invoke ideas related to landatmosphere interaction to better understand radiative-convective equilibrium; the last two research chapters use the framework of radiative-convective equilibrium to better understand land-atmosphere interaction. First, I calcul...

We calculate solar models with convective overshooting at the top and at the base of the outer convection zone, and test the models by comparing their eigenfrequencies to the observed solar p-mode frequencies. Radiative temperature relaxation is included in form of a characteristic time that describes both optically thick and thin cases, and a modified mixing-length formalism is used, with gas ...

We develop lowest-order asymptotic approximations for the eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions of linear, isentropic, low-frequency g-modes in stars consisting of a convective core and radiative envelope. The approximations are derived from a fourth-order system of differential equations in the divergence and radial component of the Lagrangian displacement without neglecting the Eulerian perturb...