Abstract
We have based our treatment on the assumption of strict spherical symmetry, meaning that all functions and variables (including velocities) are constant on concentric spheres. In reality there will arise small fluctuations on such a sphere, for example, simply from the thermal motion of the gas particles. Such local perturbations of the average state may be ignored if they do not grow. But in a star sometimes small perturbations may grow and give rise to macroscopic local (non-spherical) motions that are also statistically distributed over the sphere. In the basic equations the assumption of spherical symmetry can still be kept if we interpret the variables as proper average values over a concentric sphere.
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