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Interchange reconnection is believed to play a significant role in the production of solar jets and solar wind. However, the dynamics of interchange reconnection in the low corona might be more complex than recognized before in higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yadan Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Junchao Hong , Hechao Chen , Yuhang Gao , Zheng Sun , Zhenyong Hou , Jincheng Wang

Coronal flare emission is commonly observed to decay on timescales longer than those predicted by impulsively-driven, one-dimensional flare loop models. This discrepancy is most apparent during the gradual phase, where emission from these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 William Ashfield , Dana Longcope

Reconnection between pairs of solar magnetic flux elements, one open and the other a closed loop, is theorised to be a crucial process for both maintaining the structure of the corona and producing the solar wind. This 'interchange…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Allan R Macneil , Mathew J Owens , Laura Berčič , Adam J Finley

So-called engineering or analytical wind farm flow solvers typically build upon two submodels: one for the velocity deficit and one for the wake-added turbulence intensity. While velocity deficit modelling has received considerable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 Frédéric Blondel , Erwan Jézéquel , Helen Schottenhamml , Majid Bastankhah

The isorotation contours of the solar convective zone (SCZ) show three distinct morphologies, corresponding to two boundary layers (inner and outer), and the bulk of the interior. Previous work has shown that the thermal wind equation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Steven A. Balbus , Henrik Latter , Nigel Weiss

We present two-dimensional, cylindrically symmetric simulations of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wide-angle winds interacting with a collapsing environment. These simulations have direct relevance to young stellar objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Gardiner , A. Frank , L. Hartmann

Protostellar outflows crisscross the regions of star cluster formation, stirring turbulence and altering the evolution of the forming cluster. We model the stirring of turbulent motions by protostellar outflows, building on an observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christopher D. Matzner

The phenomenon of irregular cessation and subsequent reversal of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is theoretically analysed. The force and thermal balance on a single plume detached from the thermal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francisco Fontenele Araujo , S. Grossmann , D. Lohse

Relaxations of localized over-density in a plane transverse to the magnetic field are numericallyinvestigated under the effect of drift-wave and interchange drives in SOL conditions. Such a controlleddeparture from thermodynamic equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 R Varennes , G Dif-Pradalier , P Ghendrih , V Grandgirard , O Panico , Y Sarazin , E Serre , D Zarzoso

We investigate the Reynolds-shear-stress carrying structures in the outer layer of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers using four direct numerical simulation databases, two cases of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 M. Ali Yesildag , Taygun R. Gungor , Ayse G. Gungor , Yvan Maciel

We present an analysis of the coherent structures in Langmuir turbulence, a state of the ocean surface boundary layer driven by the interactions between water waves and wind-induced shear, via a resolvent framework. Langmuir turbulence is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Anqing Xuan , Lian Shen

Small-scale transient jetlet activity and associated upflows from coronal hole plumes are potential sources of the solar wind. To elucidate the magnetic origins and driving mechanisms of such upflows, we perform three-dimensional radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kamlesh Bora , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , David Pontin , Nikil Panyam

Kinematic signatures of the jet, winds, multicavities, and episodic shells arising in the unified model of bipolar outflows developed in Shang et al.\ (2020), in which an outflow forms by radially directed, wide-angle toroidally magnetized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hsien Shang , Chun-Fan Liu , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Liang-Yao Wang

By analyzing trajectories of solid hydrogen tracers in superfluid $^4$He, we identify tens of thousands of individual reconnection events between quantized vortices. We characterize the dynamics by the minimum separation distance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. S. Paoletti , Michael E. Fisher , D. P. Lathrop

Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics is often assumed to describe solar wind turbulence. We use extended self similarity to reveal scaling in structure functions of density fluctuations in the solar wind. Obtained scaling is then compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bogdan Hnat , Sandra C. Chapman , George Rowlands

We show, through a simple patchy reconnection model, that retracting reconnected flux tubes may present elongated regions relatively devoid of plasma, as well as long lasting, dense central hot regions. Reconnection is assumed to happen in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. E. Guidoni , D. W. Longcope

We present direct numerical simulations of inhomogeneous reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence between the Sun and the Alfv\'en critical point. These are the first such simulations that take into account the solar-wind outflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean C Perez , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

The objective of this work is to investigate the challenges encountered in Scale-Resolving Simulations (SRS's) of turbulent wake flows driven by spatially-developing coherent structures. SRS's of practical interest are expressly intended…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 F. S. Pereira , L. Eca , G. Vaz , S. S. Girimaji

There is observational evidence of propagating kink waves driven by photospheric motions. These disturbances, interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are attenuated as they propagate upwards in the solar corona. In this paper we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Terradas , M. Goossens , G. Verth

A transport-like framework for the study of magnetic reconnection mediated by self-driven turbulence is proposed, based on timescale separation between the reconnection time and the characteristic timescale of the turbulent fluctuations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Nuno F. Loureiro