Fluid Mixing during Phase Separation in Crystallizing White Dwarfs
Fluid Mixing during Phase Separation in Crystallizing White Dwarfs
Abstract Accurate models of cooling white dwarfs must treat the energy released as their cores crystallize. This phase transition slows the cooling by releasing latent heat and also gravitational energy, which results from phase separation: liquid C is released from the solid C/O core, driving an outward carbon flux. The …