Oxygen Shell Convection in a 25 Solar Mass Star

• non-rotating:


• images:


• equatorial plane (slice through equator):

entropy perturbation


radial velocity



• meridional plane (slice perpendicular to equator):

entropy perturbation


kinetic energy density



• constant radius surface (Hammer-Aitoff equal area projection):

entropy perturbation at R=7386.52 km


kinetic energy density at R=6810.05 km



• movies:


• kinetic energy density
• rotating:


• images:


• equatorial plane (slice through equator):

longitudinal velocity


entropy perturbation



• meridional plane (slice perpendicular to equator):

radial velocity


entropy perturbation



• constant radius surface (Hammer-Aitoff equal area projection):

entropy perturbation at R=6810.05


longitudinal velocity at R=7638.73



• movies:
• entropy perturbation