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We present in this Letter the first global comparison between traditional line-tied steady state magnetohydrodynamic models and a new, fully time-dependent thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the global corona. The maps are…

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Thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) is a phenomenon that can occur in solar coronal loops when the heating is quasi-constant and highly-stratified. Under such heating conditions, coronal loops undergo cycles of evaporation and condensation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 C. Froment , P. Antolin , V. M. J. Henriques , P. Kohutova , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Using two-dimensional simulations, we numerically explore the dependences of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability upon various physical parameters, including viscosity, width of sheared layer, flow speed, and magnetic field strength. In most cases,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chunlin Tian , Yao Chen

Dynamic Complexity is a phenomenon exhibited by a nonlinearly interacting system within which multitudes of different sizes of large scale coherent structures emerge, resulting in a globally nonlinear stochastic behavior vastly different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tom Chang , Cheng-chin Wu , Marius Echim , Herve Lamy , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist , Debora Sijacki

An integrated Magneto-Fluid model, that accords full treatment to the Velocity fields associated with the directed plasma motion, is developed to investigate the dynamics of coronal structures. It is suggested that the interaction of the…

Coronal condensation and rain are a crucial part of the mass cycle between the corona and chromosphere. In some cases, condensation and subsequent rain originate in the magnetic dips formed during magnetic reconnection. This provides a new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song

Solar "magnetic tornadoes" are produced by rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the upper convection zone and the photosphere to the corona of the Sun. Recent studies show that such rotating features are an integral part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yoshiaki Kato , Sven Wedemeyer

Using 3D hydrodynamic calculations we simulate formation of molecular clouds in the Galaxy. The simulations take into account molecular hydrogen chemical kinetics, cooling and heating processes. Comprehensive gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

The thermal stability of rotating, stratified, unmagnetized atmospheres is studied by means of linear-perturbation analysis, finding stability, overstability or instability, depending on the properties of the gas distribution, but also on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlo Nipoti

We study the propagation properties of slow magneto-acoustic waves in a multi-thermal coronal loop using a 3D MHD model, for the first time. A bundle of 33 vertical cylinders, each of 100{\,}km radius, randomly distributed over a circular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Krishna Prasad , T. Van Doorsselaere

Quiescent solar prominences show distinct small-scale dynamics in observations. Their internal density contrasts with the surrounding corona make them susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to vertically structured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , Rony Keppens

We present results from 3D visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of a convection zone magnetic flux tube into a solar atmosphere containing a pre-existing dipole coronal field, which is orientated to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Tibor Török

Coronal loops are building blocks of solar active regions. However, their formation mechanism is still not well understood. Here we present direct observational evidence for the formation of coronal loops through magnetic reconnection as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , Hechao Chen , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Zhenghua Huang , Xianyong Bai , Jiansen He , Yongliang Song , Lidong Xia

Suspensions of self-propelled particles, such as swimming micro-organisms, are known to undergo complex dynamics as a result of hydrodynamic interactions. This fluid dynamics video presents a numerical simulation of such a suspension, based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 David Saintillan , Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan

It is known from numerical simulations that thermal conduction along magnetic field lines plays an important role in the evolution of the kink instability in coronal loops. This study presents the observational signatures of the kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-05 G. J. J. Botha , T. D. Arber , Abhishek K. Srivastava

For the first time, we demonstrate how an MHD avalanche might occur in a multi-threaded coronal loop. Considering 23 non-potential magnetic threads within a loop, we use 3D MHD simulations to show that only one thread needs to be unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 A. W. Hood , P. J. Cargill , P. K. Browning , K. V. Tam

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

Solar-type stars exhibit a rich variety of magnetic activity. Seeking to explore the convective origins of this activity, we have carried out a series of global 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the anelastic spherical harmonic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , A. Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

Two-dimensional turbulence self-organizes through a process of energy accumulation at large scales, forming a coherent flow termed a condensate. We study the condensate in a model with local dynamics, the large-scale quasi-geostrophic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Anton Svirsky , Corentin Herbert , Anna Frishman

The turbulent flow of a fluid carrying trace amounts of a condensable species through a differentially cooled vertical channel geometry is simulated using single-phase direct numerical simulations. The release of latent heat during…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-28 Philipp Bahavar , Claus Wagner