News tagged with convective layer

Scientists glean new insights into convection in planets and stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

What determines the size of giant dunes?

Physicists at the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot / ESPCI ParisTech / Université Pierre et Marie Curie) have shown, in collaboration with scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0