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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

The quality of today's research is often tightly limited to the available computing power and scalability of codes to many processors. For example, tackling the problem of heating the solar corona requires a most realistic description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Philippe-A. Bourdin

Kinetic Riemann simulations have been completed to explore particle heating during guide field reconnection in the low-$\beta$ environment of the inner heliosphere and the solar corona. The reconnection exhaust is bounded by two rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Qile Zhang , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

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

The global coronal model COCONUT was originally developed to replace models such as the WSA model in space weather forecasting to improve the physical accuracy of the predictions. This model has, however, several simplifications implemented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Michaela Brchnelova , Błażej Kuźma , Fan Zhang , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

We present a new computational approach that addresses the difficulty of obtaining the correct interaction between the solar corona and the transition region in response to rapid heating events. In the coupled corona, transition region and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-15 C. D. Johnston , A. W. Hood , P. J. Cargill , I. De Moortel

Solar eruptions arise from instabilities or loss of equilibria in the solar atmosphere, but routinely inferring the precise magnetic and plasma properties that lead to eruptions is not currently practical using synoptic solar observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck

Approximate Riemann solvers are widely used for solving hyperbolic conservation laws, including those of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). However, due to the nonlinearity and complexity of MHD, obtaining accurate and robust numerical solutions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-25 Fan Zhang , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

We present a new global model of the solar corona, including the low corona, the transition region and the top of chromosphere. The realistic 3D magnetic field is simulated using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements.…

Context. Photospheric motions shuffle the footpoints of the strong axial magnetic field that threads coronal loops giving rise to turbulent nonlinear dynamics characterized by the continuous formation and dissipation of field-aligned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen

Recent observations at high spatial resolution have shown that magnetic flux cancellation occurs on the solar surface much more frequently than previously thought, and so this led Priest et al 2018 to propose magnetic reconnection driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 P. Syntelis , E. R. Priest , L. P. Chitta

We present an ab initio approach to the solar coronal heating problem by modelling a small part of the solar corona in a computational box using a 3D MHD code including realistic physics. The observed solar granular velocity pattern and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

Context: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are rapid eruptions of magnetized plasma that occur on the Sun, which are known as the main drivers of adverse space weather. Accurately tracking their evolution in the heliosphere in numerical models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Jinhan Guo , L. Linan , S. Poedts , Y. Guo , A. Lani , B. Schmieder , M. Brchnelova , B. Perri , T. Baratashvili , Y. W. Ni , P. F. Chen

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

This work consists of two parts: the first devoted to the study of the heating of the magnetically confined Solar Corona, and the second to the acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind. Direct 3D reduced MHD simulations are presented. They model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. F. Rappazzo

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based global solar coronal simulations are slowly making their way into the space weather modeling toolchains to replace the semi-empirical methods such as the Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA) model. However, since…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Michaela Brchnelova , Błażej Kuźma , Fan Zhang , Barbara Perri , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

A 3D model intermediate between cellular automata (CA) models and the reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations is presented to simulate solar impulsive events generated along a coronal magnetic loop. The model consists of a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Buchlin , V. Aletti , S. Galtier , M. Velli , G. Einaudi , J. -C. Vial

Modeling the solar atmosphere is challenging due to its layered structure and multi-scale dynamics. We aim to validate the new radiative MHD code MAGEC, which combines the MANCHA and MAGNUS codes into a finite-volume, shock-capturing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Anamaría Navarro , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , T. Felipe

We present the results of a detailed numerical simulation of the circumstellar environment around three exoplanet-hosting stars. A state-of-the-art global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model is considered, including Alfv\'en wave dissipation as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , G. A. J. Hussain , O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , C. Garraffo , J. Grunhut , T. I. Gombosi