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Solar wind modelling has become a crucial area of study due to the increased dependence of modern society on technology, navigation, and power systems. Accurate space weather forecasts can predict upcoming threats to Earth's geospace. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Tinatin Baratashvili , Michaela Brchnelova , Luis Linan , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

We explore the capabilities of time-dependent (TD) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solar wind simulations with the coupled WSA model of the solar corona and GAMERA model of the inner heliosphere. We compare TD with steady state (SS) simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Evangelia Samara , Elena Provornikova , C. Nick Arge , Andrew McCubbin , Viacheslav G. Merkin

The transport of waves and turbulence beyond the photosphere is central to the coronal heating problem. Turbulence in the quiet solar corona has been modeled on the basis of the nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (NI MHD) theory to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Gary P. Zank , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi

Time-evolving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) coronal modeling, driven by a series of time-dependent photospheric magnetograms, represents a new generation of coronal simulations. This approach offers greater realism compared to traditional…

Time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation modules are implemented at the Joint Science Operation Center (JSOC) of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The modules regularly produce three-dimensional data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Keiji Hayashi , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Monica G. Bobra , Xudong D. Sun , Aimee A. Norton

It is extremely difficult to simulate the details of coronal heating and also make meaningful predictions of the emitted radiation. Thus, testing realistic models with observations is a major challenge. Observational signatures of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 James A. Klimchuk , Kalman J. Knizhnik , Vadim M. Uritsky

Context: Thermal conductivity provides important contributions to the energy evolution of the upper solar atmosphere, behaving as a non-linear concentration-dependent diffusion equation. Recently, different methods have been offered as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Mikolaj Szydlarski

This paper reviews our growing understanding of the physics behind coronal heating (in open-field regions) and the acceleration of the solar wind. Many new insights have come from the last solar cycle's worth of observations and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Steven R. Cranmer , John L. Kohl , Mari Paz Miralles , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

Due to computational efficiency and numerical stability limitations, coronal simulations constrained by static magnetograms are typically performed first and then used to drive inner-heliosphere (IH) models. In this paper, we calculate the…

We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal electric field derived from the full velocity and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Feng Chen , Mark C. M. Cheung , Matthias Rempel , Georgios Chintzoglou

This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coronal Alfv\'en speed to be of two orders of magnitude lesser.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Avijeet Prasad , Bhuwan Joshi , Qiang Hu

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…

We present a newly developed data-driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation code under a zero-beta approximation based on a method proposed by Hayashi et al. 2018 and 2019. Although many data-driven MHD simulations have been developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Satoshi Inoue , Keiji Hayashi , Takahiro Miyoshi

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

We show that the coronal heating and the acceleration of the fast solar wind in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere by one-dimensional, time-dependent, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Before solar eruptions, a short-term slow-rise phase is often observed, during which the pre-eruption structure ascends at speeds much greater than the photospheric motions but much less than those of the eruption phase. Numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Qingjun Liu , Chaowei Jiang , Zhipeng Liu

Context. The structure and heating of coronal loops are investigated since decades. Established scaling laws relate fundamental quantities like the loop apex temperature, pressure, length, and the coronal heating. Aims. We test such scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

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

The objective of this study is to develop a fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic solver for fast simulations of the global dynamo of the Sun using unstructured grids and GPUs. Accurate modeling of the Sun's convective layers is vital to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Aidan Paoli , Chunlei Liang

We present in this Letter the first global comparison between traditional line-tied steady state magnetohydrodynamic models and a new, fully time-dependent thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the global corona. The maps are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Emily I. Mason , Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Ronald M. Caplan