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Caption: Figure 3.
Temperature slices at t = 0.45 s of the equatorial (top row) and meridional (bottom row) planes, comparing four selected simulations with different magnetic field strengths, turbulent conditions, and turbulent sizes. The contours (black) correspond to densities of 4, 6, 8, 10 × 108 g cm−3. As default, a turbulent scale of 40 km is used, consistent with hydrosimulations for the thermonuclear runaway (P. Höflich & J. Stein 2002). Though the turbulent field controls the burning (column 2 versus 3), the magnetic field constrains the rise of the plume to higher density regions. B partially suppresses the small-scale structure. Note that turbulent scales larger than the typical size of the pockets are ineffective in mixing burned material into unburned pockets, but rather result in an overall more fragmented morphology (column 1 versus 2).
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