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The coronal magnetic field directly or indirectly affects a majority of the phenomena studied in space physics. It provides energy for coronal heating, controls the release of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and drives heliospheric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Shaela I. Jones , Joseph M. Davila , Vadim M. Uritsky

Numerical methods to improve the treatment of magnetic fields in smoothed field magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) are developed and tested. Chapter 2 is a review of SPMHD. In Chapter 3, a mixed hyperbolic/parabolic scheme is developed which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Terrence S. Tricco

We developed a {\sl coronal non-linear force-free field (COR-NLFFF)} forward-fitting code that fits an approximate {\sl non-linear force-free field (NLFFF)} solution to the observed geometry of automatically traced coronal loops. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Xudong Sun , Yang Liu

Currently, achieving a balance between computational efficiency, accuracy, and numerical stability in CME simulations, particularly in the sub-Alfv{'e}nic coronal region, remains a significant challenge. This paper aims to address the…

Aims. The goal is to employ a 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model including spectral synthesis to model the corona in an observed solar active region. This will allow us to judge the merits of the coronal heating mechanism built into the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ph. -A. Bourdin , S. Bingert , H. Peter

The SDO/HMI instruments provide photospheric vector magnetograms with a high spatial and temporal resolution. Our intention is to model the coronal magnetic field above active regions with the help of a nonlinear force-free extrapolation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , B. Inhester , T. Tadesse , X. Sun , J. T. Hoeksema

Oscillations in coronal loops are usually interpreted in terms of uncoupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Examples of these waves are standing transverse motions, interpreted as the kink MHD modes, and propagating slow modes, commonly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Terradas , J. Andries , E. Verwichte

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

Numerical MHD simulations of 3D reconnection events in the solar corona have improved enormously over the last few years, not only in resolution, but also in their complexity, enabling more and more realistic modeling. Various ways to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , K. Galsgaard , Å. Nordlund

Advanced 3D radiative MHD simulations now reproduce many properties of the outer solar atmosphere. When including a domain from the convection zone into the corona, a hot chromosphere and corona are self-consistently maintained. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Viggo Hansteen , Nuno Guerreiro , Bart De Pontieu , Mats Carlsson

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations model a wide range of plasma physics applications and are characterized by a nonlinear system of partial differential equations that strongly couples a charged fluid with the evolution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 J. H. Adler , T. Benson , E. C. Cyr , P. E. Farrell , S. MacLachlan , R. Tuminaro

The adiabatic limit of a recently proposed dynamical extension of Taylor relaxation, \emph{multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics} (MRxMHD) is summarized, with special attention to the appropriate definition of relative magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Robert L. Dewar , Stuart R. Hudson , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Zensho Yoshida

Magnetic reconnection (MR) plays a fundamental role in plasma dynamics under many different conditions, from space and astrophysical environments to laboratory devices. High-resolution in-situ measurements from space missions allow to study…

Magnetic field extrapolation is an important tool to study the three-dimensional (3D) solar coronal magnetic field which is difficult to directly measure. Various analytic models and numerical codes exist but their results often drastically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Qiang Hu , Huai Zhang , G. Allen Gary , S. T. Wu , Jinbin Cao

This article introduces a new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium solver, based on the concept of admissible variations of B, p that allows for magnetic relaxation of a magnetic field in a perturbed/non-minimum energy state to a lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tobias Blickhan , Julianne Stratton , Alan A. Kaptanoglu

We present a newly developed approach to solar coronal magnetic field extrapolation from vector magnetograms, based on the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate (MDR). The MDR system was derived from a variational problem that is more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Hu , B. Dasgupta , D. P. Choudhary , J. Büchner

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

Many magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere evolve rather slowly so that they can be assumed as (quasi-)static or (quasi-)stationary and represented via magneto-hydrostatic (MHS) or stationary magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Dieter H. Nickeler , Thomas Wiegelmann , Marian Karlicky , Michaela Kraus

We have developed a data-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of the global solar corona which uses characteristically-consistent boundary conditions (BCs) at the inner boundary. Our global solar corona model can be driven by different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Nikolai Pogorelov , Yang Liu

In recent years, space weather research has focused on developing modelling techniques to predict the arrival time and properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth. The aim of this paper is to propose a new modelling technique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Pagano , D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates