Time Dependent Convection in Stars — a Review of the Theories

Theories that have been proposed to describe thermal convection in a moving atmosphere are described and compared. Most of them are time dependent variations of mixing-length theory and most are found to be quite closely related. The differences and similarities are noted. A brief account of the applications to pulsating-star problems is given.

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