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Aims. We aim to develop a fast and consistent extrapolation method to model multiple layers of the solar atmosphere. Methods. The new approach combines the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation which models the solar low atmosphere in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

We use a numerical nonlinear multigrid magnetic relaxation technique to investigate the generation of current sheets in three-dimensional magnetic flux braiding experiments. We are able to catalogue the relaxed nonlinear force-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Longbottom , G. J. Rickard , I. J. D. Craig , A. D. Sneyd

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

We construct two classes of magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equilibria for an axisymmetric vertical flux tube spanning from the photosphere to the lower part of the transition region within a realistic stratified solar atmosphere subject to solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Samrat Sen , A. Mangalam

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

Context. Magnetized plasmas characterized by shearing flows are present in many natural contexts, such as the Earth's magnetopause and the solar wind. The collisionless nature of involved plasmas requires a kinetic description. When the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Giovanni Guzzi , Adriana Settino , Francesco Valentini , Francesco Malara

In many astrophysical plasmas, the Coulomb collision is insufficient to maintain an isotropic temperature, and the system is driven to the anisotropic regime. In this case, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models with anisotropic pressure are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hongyang Luo , John G. Lyon , Binzheng Zhang

A technique is proposed for constructing three-dimensional solutions comlplying with the self-consistent magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equations and with observations along the line of sight of the magnetic field at the photosphere. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. V. Rudenko

We study stationary free boundary configurations of an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid possessing nested flux surfaces. In 2D simply connected domains, we prove that if the magnetic field and velocity field are never…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Peter Constantin , Theodore D. Drivas , Daniel Ginsberg

We propose two sets of initial conditions for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in which both the velocity and the magnetic fields have spatial symmetries that are preserved by the dynamical equations as the system evolves. When implemented…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Lee , M. E. Brachet , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

We introduce to the stellar physics community a method of modelling stellar coronae that can be considered to be an extension of the potential field. In this approach, the magnetic field is coupled to the background atmosphere. The model is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 David MacTaggart , Scott Gregory , Thomas Neukirch , Jean-Francois Donati

A representation of the static MHD equilibrium system in coordinates connected with magnetic surfaces is suggested. It is used for producing families of non-trivial 3D exact solutions of isotropic and anisotropic plasma equilibria in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei F. Cheviakov

Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

Magnetohydrostatic models of the solar atmosphere are often based on idealized analytic solutions because the underlying equations are too difficult to solve in full generality. Numerical approaches, too, are often limited in scope and have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 S. A. Gilchrist , D. C. Braun , G. Barnes

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are routinely observed in the solar atmosphere. These waves are important in the context of solar physics as it is widely believed they can contribute to the energy budget of the solar atmosphere and are a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Samuel Skirvin , Viktor Fedun , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth

The dynamical coupling between the solar chromospheric plasma and magnetic field is investigated by numerically solving a fully self-consistent, two-dimensional initial-value problem for the nonlinear collisional MHD equations including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. M. Alekseeva , S. P. Kshevetskii

Equations describing plasma equilibria are derived from the total energy of the system. The MHD equilibrium is shown to hold even for systems where the magnetic field may locally vanish. Through conservation of helicity, confinement is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 John Hedditch

Context: This paper presents a method which can be used to calculate models of the global solar corona from observational data. Aims: We present an optimization method for computing nonlinear magnetohydrostatic equilibria in spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch , P. Ruan , B. Inhester

Recent results will be presented on steady states of magnetically confined plasmas obtained by conventional and Hamiltonian methods. The presentation consists of three parts. The first one concerns the derivation of a generalized…

Exact nonlinear equations for magnetosonic shocklets in a uniform hot magnetoplasma are derived by using the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic equations. Analytic as well as numerical solutions of the nonlinear equations are presented.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. K. Shukla , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , R. Bingham