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I review simulations of Co-rotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) in line-driven stellar winds. Previous CIR models have been based on a local, Sobolev treatment of the line-force, which effectively suppresses the strong, small-scale instability intrinsic to line-driving. Here I describe a new “3-ray-aligned-grid” method for computing the nonlocal, smooth-source-function line-force in 2D models that do include this line-driven instability. Preliminary results indicate that key overall features of large-scale CIRs can be quite similar in both Sobolev and non-Sobolev treatments, if the level of instability-generated wind structure is not too great. However, in certain models wherein the unstable self-excitation of wind variability penetrates back to the wind base, the stochastic, small-scale structure can become so dominant that it effectively disrupts any large-scale, CIR pattern.
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Owocki, S.P. (1999). Co-rotating interaction regions in 2D hot-star wind models with line-driven instability. In: Wolf, B., Stahl, O., Fullerton, A.W. (eds) Variable and Non-spherical Stellar Winds in Luminous Hot Stars. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 523. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106394
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