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We describe a 3D finite-difference spherical anelastic MHD (FSAM) code for modeling the subsonic dynamic processes in the solar convective envelope. A comparison of this code with the widely used global spectral anlastic MHD code, ASH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yuhong Fan , Nicholas Featherstone , Fang Fang

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

We present results from 3D visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of a convection zone magnetic flux tube into a solar atmosphere containing a pre-existing dipole coronal field, which is orientated to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Tibor Török

We report the observations of a moderate but relatively intense geo-effective solar eruption on 2015 November 4 from the peripheral diffusive polarities of active region 12443. We use space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory and ACE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Xiaowei Zhao

We computed the thermal microwave emission from a 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and compared it with observations of solar jets. The simulation treats the emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere and its interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Costas E. Alissandrakis , Vasilis Archontis , Kostas Moraitis

Aims. We investigate the configuration of a complex flux rope above a {\delta} sunspot region in NOAA AR 11515, and its eruptive expansion during a confined M5.3-class flare. Methods. We study the formation of the {\delta} sunspot using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lijuan Liu , Jiajia Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Guoqiang Wang , Zhenjun Zhou , Jun Cui

Solar eruptive behavior is often modeled with magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetic flux emergence. The usual geometry considered is that of a horizontal cylindrical magnetic flux tube. An alternative is the toroidal tube geometry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 J. Zhuleku , V. Archontis , K. Moraitis

Electric currents play a critical role in the triggering of solar flares and their evolution. The aim of the present paper is to test whether the surface electric current has a surface or subsurface fixed source as predicts the circuit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Miho Janvier , Brigitte Schmieder , Sophie Masson

Using numerical simulations, we study the formation and dynamics of post-flare loops in a local region of the solar atmosphere. The MHD equations rule the post-flare structures' dynamic evolution, including space-dependent magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio González-Servín , J. J. González-Avilés

Solar eruptions may occur at different evolutionary stages of active regions, during which the photospheric motions manifest in various forms, including flux emergence, sunspot rotation, shearing, converging, and magnetic flux diffusion.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Yang Wang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We present a boundary data-driven magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the 2011-02-15 coronal mass ejection (CME) event of Active Region (AR) NOAA 11158. The simulation is driven at the lower boundary with an electric field derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yuhong Fan , Maria D. Kazachenko , Andrey N. Afanasyev , George H. Fisher

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

This work is a continuation of Paper I [Sharykin et al., 2018] devoted to analysis of nonthermal electron dynamics and plasma heating in the confined M1.2 class solar flare SOL2015-03-15T22:43 revealing energy release in the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov

We have performed 3D MHD simulations to study the effect of partial ionization in the process of magnetic flux emergence in the Sun. In fact, we continue previous work and we now focus: 1) on the emergence of the magnetic fields above the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Georgios Chouliaras , V. Archontis

Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we investigate the eruption of coronal flux ropes underlying coronal streamers and the development of a prominence eruption. We initialize a quasi-steady solution of a coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yuhong Fan

We conduct forward-modeling analysis based on our 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of magnetic flux rope (MFR) formation and eruption driven by photospheric converging motion. The current sheet (CS) evolution during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaozhou Zhao , Chun Xia , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Rony Keppens , W. Q. Gan

Magnetohydrodynamics of the solar corona is simulated numerically. The simulation is initialized with an extrapolated non-force-free magnetic field using the vector magnetogram of the active region (AR) NOAA 12192 obtained on the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu , Sanjay Kumar , Sushree S. Nayak

A large-scale, horse-shoe-like filament was investigated and the magnetic field around it was reconstructed. This is an intermediate filament (IF) that appeared on the solar disk for the first time at 02:00 UT on 2015 November 7, and took 8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Kaifeng Kang , Yang Guo , Ilia I. Roussev , Rony Keppens , Jun Lin

We study flare processes in the lower solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets