scholarly journals Some remarks on the theory of rotating stars

1984 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 513-515
Author(s):  
L. Mestel

The principal question studied in Mestel (1953) was: under what conditions will the E-S circulation through the radiative envelope ensure that a Cowling-type main sequence star stays effectively homogeneous? The E-S velocities v are of order (L/Mg)(Ω2r/g), so that the circulation time tcirc is ⋍ t(ΩKelvin-Helmholtz)/(Ω2 r/g), where the bar indicates a mean value. The circulation advects nuclear-processed material from the convective core, and so sets up horizontal variations δµ in mean molecular weight µ. The condition of hydrostatic support requires corresponding horizontal temperature variations; the consequent local breakdown in radiative equilibrium yields a “µ-current” (analogous to the E-S “Ω-current”) with velocities vµ estimated roughly as (L/Mg) (δµ/µ). The total velocity vμ is the linear superposition v∽Ω + v∽µ, each constructed using first-order perturbation theory. The µ-distribution that fixes v∽µ is itself determined by the circulation:

1959 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
V. G. Fessenkov ◽  
G. M. Idlis

Considerations regarding the evolutionary path of the main sequence stars depend essentially on the theorem of Vogt-Russell. According to this theorem the structure of stars with thermonuclear sources of energy is determined uniquely by their masses and chemical composition, as characterised by the mean molecular weight X, Y, Z being the relative amounts of hydrogen, helium and of the mixture of the heavy elements.


2021 ◽  
Vol 923 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
M. Renzo ◽  
Y. Götberg

Abstract Most massive stars are born in binaries close enough for mass transfer episodes. These modify the appearance, structure, and future evolution of both stars. We compute the evolution of a 100-day-period binary, consisting initially of a 25 M ⊙ star and a 17 M ⊙ star, which experiences stable mass transfer. We focus on the impact of mass accretion on the surface composition, internal rotation, and structure of the accretor. To anchor our models, we show that our accretor broadly reproduces the properties of ζ Ophiuchi, which has long been proposed to have accreted mass before being ejected as a runaway star when the companion exploded. We compare our accretor to models of single rotating stars and find that the later and stronger spin-up provided by mass accretion produces significant differences. Specifically, the core of the accretor retains higher spin at the end of the main sequence, and a convective layer develops that changes its density profile. Moreover, the surface of the accretor star is polluted by CNO-processed material donated by the companion. Our models show effects of mass accretion in binaries that are not captured in single rotating stellar models. This possibly impacts the further evolution (either in a binary or as single stars), the final collapse, and the resulting spin of the compact object.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Jiang ◽  
G. Y. Lu ◽  
X. Han ◽  
R. G. Bi

Compared with the probability model, the convex model approach only requires the bound information on the uncertainty, and can make it possible to conduct the reliability analysis for many complex engineering problems with limited samples. Presently, by introducing the well-established techniques in probability-based reliability analysis, some methods have been successfully developed for convex model reliability. This paper aims to reveal some different phenomena and furthermore some severe paradoxes when extending the widely used first-order reliability method (FORM) into the convex model problems, and whereby provide some useful suggestions and guidelines for convex-model-based reliability analysis. Two FORM-type approximations, namely, the mean-value method and the design-point method, are formulated to efficiently compute the nonprobabilistic reliability index. A comparison is then conducted between these two methods, and some important phenomena different from the traditional FORMs are summarized. The nonprobabilistic reliability index is also extended to treat the system reliability, and some unexpected paradoxes are found through two numerical examples.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-215
Author(s):  
JEFFREY GAITHER ◽  
GUY LOUCHARD ◽  
STEPHAN WAGNER ◽  
MARK DANIEL WARD

We analyse the first-order asymptotic growth of \[ a_{n}=\int_{0}^{1}\prod_{j=1}^{n}4\sin^{2}(\pi jx)\, dx. \] The integer an appears as the main term in a weighted average of the number of orbits in a particular quasihyperbolic automorphism of a 2n-torus, which has applications to ergodic and analytic number theory. The combinatorial structure of an is also of interest, as the ‘signed’ number of ways in which 0 can be represented as the sum of ϵjj for −n ≤ j ≤ n (with j ≠ 0), with ϵj ∈ {0, 1}. Our result answers a question of Thomas Ward (no relation to the fourth author) and confirms a conjecture of Robert Israel and Steven Finch.


2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 951-971
Author(s):  
NADAV MEIR

AbstractWe say a structure ${\cal M}$ in a first-order language ${\cal L}$ is indivisible if for every coloring of its universe in two colors, there is a monochromatic substructure ${\cal M}\prime \subseteq {\cal M}$ such that ${\cal M}\prime \cong {\cal M}$. Additionally, we say that ${\cal M}$ is symmetrically indivisible if ${\cal M}\prime$ can be chosen to be symmetrically embedded in ${\cal M}$ (that is, every automorphism of ${\cal M}\prime$ can be extended to an automorphism of ${\cal M}$). Similarly, we say that ${\cal M}$ is elementarily indivisible if ${\cal M}\prime$ can be chosen to be an elementary substructure. We define new products of structures in a relational language. We use these products to give recipes for construction of elementarily indivisible structures which are not transitive and elementarily indivisible structures which are not symmetrically indivisible, answering two questions presented by A. Hasson, M. Kojman, and A. Onshuus.


2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning-Cong Xiao ◽  
Hong-Zhong Huang ◽  
Zhonglai Wang ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Xiao-Ling Zhang

Author(s):  
Lu Wudu

AbstractConsider the nonlinear neutral equationwhere pi(t), hi(t), gj(t), Q(t) Є C[t0, ∞), limt→∞hi(t) = ∞, limt→∞gj(t) = ∞ i Є Im = {1, 2, …, m}, j Є In = {1, 2, …, n}. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition (2) for this equation to have a nonoscillatory solution x(t) with limt→∞ inf|x(t)| > 0 (Theorems 5 and 6) or to have a bounded nonoscillatory solution x(t) with limt→∞ inf|x(t)| > 0 (Theorem 7).


1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Paris ◽  
C. Dimitracopoulos

The results in this paper were motivated by the following result due to R. Solovay.Theorem 1 (Solovay). Let M be a nonstandard model of Peano's first order axioms P and let I ⊂e M (i.e. ϕ ≠ ⊂ M and I is closed under < and successor). Then for each of the functions we can define J ⊆e I in ‹M, I› such that J is closed under that function. (∣x∣ denotes [log2(x)].)Proof. Just notice that the cuts defined byare successively closed under In view of Theorem 1, the following question was raised by R. Solovay: Can we define J ⊆ I in ‹M, I› such that J is closed under exponentiation? In Theorem 2 we show that the answer is “no”. Theorem 3 is based on Theorem 2 and extends the technique to cuts which are models of subsystems of P.To prove both theorems we shall need an estimate due to R. Parikh (see [1], especially the proof of Theorem 2.2a). For the sake of completeness, and also to introduce some notation we shall sketch Parikh's estimate in the next section. At all times we shall give the easiest estimates which still work rather than the sharpest ones.


1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Butcher

Huta [1], [2] has given two processes for solving a first order differential equation to sixth order accuracy. His methods are each eight stage Runge-Kutta processes and differ mainly in that the later process has simpler coefficients occurring in it.


Author(s):  
P. A. P. Moran

Recent investigations by F. Yates (1) in agricultural statistics suggest a mathematical problem which may be formulated as follows. A function f(x) is known to be of bounded variation and Lebesgue integrable on the range −∞ < x < ∞, and its integral over this range is to be determined. In default of any knowledge of the position of the non-negligible values of the function the best that can be done is to calculate the infinite sumfor some suitable δ and an arbitrary origin t, where s ranges over all possible positive and negative integers including zero. S is evidently of period δ in t and ranges over all its values as t varies from 0 to δ. Previous writers (Aitken (2), p. 45, and Kendall (3)) have examined the resulting errors for fixed t. (They considered only symmetrical functions, and supposed one of the lattice points to be located at the centre.) Here we do not restrict ourselves to symmetrical functions and consider the likely departure of S(t) from J (the required integral) when t is a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, δ). It will be shown that S(t) is distributed about J as mean value, with a variance which will be evaluated as a function of δ, the scale of subdivision.


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