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The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

We conducted a high-resolution numerical simulation of the solar corona above a stable active region. The aim is to test the field-line braiding mechanism for a sufficient coronal energy input. We also check the applicability of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We study phase shifts of the propagating slow waves in coronal loops invoking the effects of thermal conductivity, compressive viscosity, radiative losses and heating-cooling imbalance. We derive a general dispersion relation and solve it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-01 Abhinav Prasad , A. K. Srivastava , Tongjiang Wang

A mechanism of self-heating of solar corona is pointed out. It is shown that the free energy available in the form of sheared flows gives rise to unstable electrostatic waves which accelerate the particles and heat them. The electrostatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Saleem , S. Ali , S. Poedts

The heating of the plasma in the solar atmosphere is discussed within both frameworks of fluid and kinetic drift wave theory. We show that the basic ingredient necessary for the heating is the presence of density gradients in the direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts

A linear correlation is presented between the reduced surface tension \sigma^* and reduced temperature T^*_{extScal} by applying the extended scaling law. The correlation is applied quite accurately to 17 atomic, diatomic, and molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Hadi Ghatee , Ali Soorghali

We use the ASH code to model the convective dynamo of solar-type stars. Based on a series of 15 3-D MHD simulations spanning 4 bins in rotation and mass, we show what mechanisms are at work in these stellar dynamos with and without magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Quentin Noraz , Barbara Perri , Jacobo Varela , Kyle Augsutson , Paul Charbonneau , Juri Toomre

Following the idea that dissipation in turbulence at high Reynolds number is by events singular in space-time and described by solutions of the inviscid Euler equations, we draw the conclusion that in such flows scaling laws should depend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-01 Yves Pomeau , Martine Le Berre

Observational and theoretical evidence suggests that coronal heating is impulsive and occurs on very small cross-field spatial scales. A single coronal loop could contain a hundred or more individual strands that are heated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Klimchuk , S. Patsourakos , P. J. Cargill

We have studied the chromospheric evaporation flow during the impulsive phase of the flare by using the Hinode/EIS observation and 1D hydrodynamic numerical simulation coupled to the time-dependent ionization. The observation clearly shows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Shinsuke Imada , Izumi Murakami , Tetsuya Watanabe

We present a study of the spatial and spectral evolution of the loop-top (LT) sources in a sample of 6 flares near the solar limb observed by {\it RHESSI}. A distinct coronal source, which we identify as the LT source, was seen in each of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yan Wei Jiang , Siming Liu , Wei Liu , Vahe Petrosian

Standing long-period (with the periods longer than several minutes) oscillations in large hot (with the temperature higher than 3 MK) coronal loops have been observed as the quasi-periodic modulation of the EUV and microwave intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sanjay Kumar , V. M. Nakariakov , Y. -J. Moon

We investigate a possibility of heating of the loops and other closed magnetic structures in active regions of the solar corona by the flow of solar wind (plus other flows that may be present) across the magnetic field lines (that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

In this Letter, the 2-dimensional dense flow of polygonal particles on an incline with a flat frictional inferior boundary is analyzed by means of contact dynamics discrete element simulations, in order to develop boundary conditions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-10 Riccardo Artoni , Andrea C. Santomaso , Massimiliano Go' , Paolo Canu

We present a theoretical argument to derive a scaling law between the mean translocation time $\tau$ and the chain length $N$ for driven polymer translocation. This scaling law explicitly takes into account the pore-polymer interactions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-29 Timo Ikonen , Aniket Bhattacharya , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Wokyung Sung

We aim to study the influence of radiative cooling on the standing kink oscillations of a coronal loop. Using the FLASH code, we solved the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Our model consists of a straight, density enhanced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-30 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Marcu

The dynamics of a large number of liquids and polymers exhibit scaling properties characteristic of a simple repulsive inverse power law (IPL) potential, most notably the superpositioning of relaxation data as a function of the variable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Fragiadakis , C. M. Roland

Despite their fundamental and applied importance, a general model to predict the natural breakup length of steady capillary jets has not been proposed yet. In this work, we derive a scaling law with two universal constants to calculate that…

Rapidly decaying slow magnetoacoustic waves are regularly observed in the solar coronal structures, offering a promising tool for a seismological diagnostics of the coronal plasma, including its thermodynamical properties. The effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , D. I. Zavershinskii

By using topological current theory we study the inner topological structure of vortices a two-dimensional (2D) XY model and find the topological current relating to the order parameter field. A scalar field, $\psi$, is introduced through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-03 Wei-Kai Qi , Yong Chen