Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Temperature gradients part 2


The above is the plot of the absolute values of the Adiabatic (black) and Actual (red) temperature gradients.

From it, one can see that |dT/dr|adb > |dT/dr|act. I now believe this to be correct, whereas before, I thought this was incorrect.

http://www.ucolick.org/~krumholz/courses/fall09_ast112/notes12.pdf

1 comment:

  1. I think you should plot this graph from R=0 to R=1Rsun. That way you can see one gradient surpass the other (which should occur at R=0.7Rsun).

    Also, you might plot it without the absolute value, just as a check. I wonder if the red line is passing 0 at 0.725 Rsun...

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