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In this review many of the well known tools for the analysis of Complex systems are used in order to study the global coupling of the turbulent convection zone with the solar atmosphere where the magnetic energy is dissipated explosively.…

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3D Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) resistive simulations have highlighted the significance of ubiquitous turbulence to drive fast reconnection. It has been demonstrated that particle acceleration via reconnection in 3D magnetized flows, where…

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Solar flares involve complex processes that are coupled and span a wide range of temporal, spatial, and energy scales. Modeling such processes self-consistently has been a challenge in the past. Here we present results from simulations that…

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High-resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks has unveiled a rich diversity of spiral structure, some of which may arise from disk-planet interaction. Using 3D hydrodynamics with $\beta$-cooling to a vertically-stratified background, as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dhruv Muley , Ruobing Dong , Jeffrey Fung

Context. Solar eruptions and high flare activity often accompany the rapid rotation of sunspots. The study of sunspot rotation and the mechanisms driving this motion are therefore key to our understanding of how the solar atmosphere attains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Z. Sturrock , A. W. Hood , V. Archontis , C. M. McNeill

The solar wind undergoes significant heating as it propagates away from the Sun; the exact mechanisms responsible for this heating remain unclear. Using data from the first perihelion of the Parker Solar Probe mission, we examine the…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Nikos Sioulas , Chen Shi , Zesen Huang , Marco Velli

Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar flares, it has been established that magnetic reconnection…

Data-driven simulation is becoming an important approach for realistically characterizing the configuration and evolution of solar active regions, revealing the onset mechanism of solar eruption events and hopefully achieving the goal of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

The magnetosphere of Mercury is studied using an implicit full particle in cell simulation (PIC). We use a hybrid simulation where ions are full particles and electrons are considered as a fluid to start a full PIC simulation where…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Giovanni Lapenta , David Schriver , Raymond J. Walker , Jean Berchem , Nicole F. Echterling , Mostafa El Alaoui , Pavel Travnicek

Numerical MHD simulations play increasingly important role for understanding mechanisms of stellar magnetism. We present simulations of convection and dynamos in density-stratified rotating spherical fluid shells. We employ a new 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Radostin D. Simitev , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Friedrich H. Busse

We discuss electron acceleration and heating during collisionless magnetic reconnection by using the results of implicit kinetic simulations of Harris current sheets. We consider and compare electron dynamics in plasmas with different \beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Ricci , Giovanni Lapenta , J. U. Brackbill

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

We present large scale 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to examine particle energization in magnetic reconnection of relativistic electron-positron (pair) plasmas. The initial configuration is set up as a relativistic Harris…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Wei Liu , Hui Li , Lin Yin , B. J. Albright , K. J. Bowers , E. P. Liang

Transit spectroscopy of terrestrial planets around nearby M dwarfs is a primary goal of space missions in coming decades. 3-D climate modeling has shown that slow-synchronous rotating terrestrial planets may develop thick clouds at the…

There is considerable observational evidence of implosion of magnetic loop systems inside solar coronal active regions following high energy events like solar flares. In this work, we propose that such collapse can be modeled in three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Aveek Sarkar , Bhargav Vaidya , Soumitra Hazra , Jishnu Bhattacharyya

We investigated the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structures and dynamics responsible for particle acceleration in an X7.1-class flare that occurred on October 1, 2024, in NOAA active region 13842. We combined stereoscopic hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Meiqi Wang , Säm Krucker , Satoshi Masuda , Muriel Zoë Stiefel , Jeongwoo Lee , Bin Chen , Haimin Wang

We present first results from three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of M-type dwarf stars with CO5BOLD. The local models include the top of the convection zone, the photosphere, and the chromosphere. The results are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 S. Wedemeyer , H. -G. Ludwig , O. Steiner

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

The internal dynamics of active gels, both in artificial (in-vitro) model systems and inside the cytoskeleton of living cells, has been extensively studied by experiments of recent years. These dynamics are probed using tracer particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Ben Isaac , É. Fodor , P. Visco , F. van Wijland , N. S. Gov

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

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