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Coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves are large-scale disturbances propagating in the corona, whose physical nature and origin have been discussed for decades. We report the first three dimensional (3D) radiative magneto-hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Can Wang , Feng Chen , Mingde Ding

Compared to quasi-steady-state corona models that are constrained by a time-invariant magnetogram over a CR period, time-evolving corona models driven by time-varying photospheric magnetograms are more realistic and can maintain more useful…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Haopeng Wang , Stefaan Poedts , Andrea Lani , Michaela Brchnelová , Tinatin Baratashvili , Luis Linan , Fan Zhang , Dawei Hou , Yuhao Zhou

We present a new simulation setup using the MURaM radiative Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that allows to study the formation of collisional polarity inversion lines (cPILs) in the photosphere and the coronal response including flares. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Matthias Rempel , Georgios Chintzoglou , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yuhong Fan , Lucia Kleint

Current models of the solar wind must approximate (or ignore) the small-scale dynamics within the solar atmosphere, however these are likely important in shaping the emerging wave-turbulence spectrum and ultimately heating/accelerating the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Adam J. Finley , Sacha A. Brun , Mats Carlsson , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Viggo Hansteen , Munehito Shoda

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

A recent third-order, essentially non-oscillatory central scheme to advance the equations of single-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in time has been implemented into a new numerical code. This code operates on a 3-D Cartesian,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 Jens Kleimann , Andreas Kopp , Horst Fichtner , Rainer Grauer

It is well known that magnetic fields dominate the dynamics in the solar corona, and new generation of numerical modelling of the evolution of coronal magnetic fields, as featured with boundary conditions driven directly by observation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Chaowei Jiang , Xinkai Bian , Tingting Sun , Xueshang Feng

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

The solar corona is a hot, dynamic, and highly magnetized plasma environment whose source of energy is not yet well understood. One leading contender for that energy source is the dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves or turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Steven R. Cranmer

A full 3-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation is conducted to investigate the thermal responses of a coronal loop to the dynamic dissipation processes of MHD waves. When the foot points of the loop are randomly and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Takuma Matsumoto

We present a new version of the Alfven Wave Solar Model (AWSoM), a global model from the upper chromosphere to the corona and the heliosphere. The coronal heating and solar wind acceleration are addressed with low-frequency Alfven wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Bart van der Holst , Igor V. Sokolov , Xing Meng , Meng Jin , Ward B. Manchester , Gabor Toth , Tamas I. Gombosi

Total solar eclipses (TSEs) provide a unique opportunity to observe the large-scale solar corona. The solar wind plays an important role in forming the large-scale coronal structure and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yihua Li , Guoyin Chen , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Hao Wu , Yuhao Huang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

In this paper, we present an efficient and time-accurate three-dimensional (3D) single-fluid MHD solar coronal model and employ it to simulate CME evolution and propagation. Based on a quasi-steady-state implicit MHD coronal model, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 H. P. Wang , J. H. Guo , L. P. Yang , S. Poedts , F. Zhang , A. Lani , T. Baratashvili , L. Linan , R. Lin , Y. Guo

State-of-the-art MHD calculations reveal acceptable agreement with observational data for the height profile of the temperature $T(h)$ in the transition region of solar corona. Simultaneously, the velocity of the solar wind $U(h)$ has also…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 A. M. Varonov

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

The mechanism behind coronal heating still elude direct observation and modelling of viable theoretical processes and the subsequent effect on coronal structures is one of the key tools available to assess possible heating mechanisms.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 P. Pagano , I. De Moortel , R. J. Morton

A simplified non-linear numerical model for the development of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the presence of a strong magnetic field B0 and stratification, nicknamed Shell-Atm, is presented. In planes orthogonal to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Buchlin , M. Velli

Recently using Particle-In-Cell simulations i.e. in the kinetic plasma description Tsiklauri et al. and G\'enot et al. reported on a discovery of a new mechanism of parallel electric field generation, which results in electron acceleration.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

In this paper, we simulate the magnetic flux evolution at different heliocentric distances during two solar-maximum Carrington rotations (CRs) using the time-evolving coronal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model COCONUT to investigate the ``open…

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen