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We analyze the cosmic-ray magnetohydrodynamic (CR MHD) equations to improve the numerical simulations. We propose to solve them in the fully conservation form, which is equivalent to the conventional CR MHD equations. In the fully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-07 Yuki Kudoh , Tomoyuki Hanawa

Coronal rain consists of cool and dense plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. Previous numerical simulations of thermal instability and coronal rain formation have relied on artificially adding a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , A. Popovas , M. Szydlarski , V. H. Hansteen

We design a novel, exactly energy-conserving implicit non-symplectic integration method for an eight-dimensional Hamiltonian system with four degrees of freedom. In our algorithm, each partial derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-30 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Guoqing Huang , Enwei Liang

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

A major goal in solar physics has during the last five decades been to find how energy flux generated in the solar convection zone is transported and dissipated in the outer solar layers. Progress in this field has been slow and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viggo H. Hansteen , Mats Carlsson , Boris Gudiksen

Oscillations are abundant in the solar corona. Coronal loop oscillations are typically studied using highly idealised models of magnetic flux tubes. In order to improve our understanding of coronal oscillations, it is necessary to consider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , M. Szydlarski , M. Carlsson

The recently-introduced relaxation approach for Runge-Kutta methods can be used to enforce conservation of energy in the integration of Hamiltonian systems. We study the behavior of implicit and explicit relaxation Runge-Kutta methods in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Hendrik Ranocha , David I. Ketcheson

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

Solar flares are explosive events in the solar corona, representing fast conversion of magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic energy, and hence radiation, due to magnetic reconnection. Modelling is essential for understanding and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , R. F. Pinto

Coronal heating through the explosive release of magnetic energy remains an open problem in solar physics. Recent hydrodynamical models attempt an investigation by placing swarms of 'nanoflares' at random sites and times in modeled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 K. Moraitis , A. Toutountzi , H. Isliker , M. Georgoulis , L. Vlahos , G. Chintzoglou

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves have been observed frequently in solar coronal flux tubes, which makes them a great tool for seismology of the solar corona. Here, the effect of viscosity is studied on the evolution of kink waves. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Roberto Soler , Kayoomars Karami

We proposed that the use of an approximate "jump condition" at the solar transition region permits fast and accurate numerical solutions of the one dimensional hydrodynamic equations when the corona undergoes impulsive heating. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 C. D. Johnston , A. W. Hood , P. J. Cargill , I. De Moortel

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

The nanoflare paradigm of coronal heating has proven extremely promising for explaining the presence of hot, multi-million degree loops in the solar corona. In this paradigm, localized heating events supply enough energy to heat the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Will T. Barnes , Jeffrey W. Reep , Vadim M. Uritsky

Context: This paper presents a method which can be used to calculate models of the global solar corona from observational data. Aims: We present an optimization method for computing nonlinear magnetohydrostatic equilibria in spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch , P. Ruan , B. Inhester

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

Starting from a realistically sheared magnetic arcade connecting chromospheric, transition region to coronal plasma, we simulate the in-situ formation and sustained growth of a quiescent prominence in the solar corona. Contrary to previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Chun Xia , P. F. Chen , Rony Keppens

Modeling the interface region between solar photosphere and corona is challenging, because the relative importance of magnetic and plasma forces change by several orders of magnitude. While the solar corona can be modeled by the force-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

Global ideal magnetohydrodynamic models of the heliosphere typically predict a greatly exaggerated magnetic field pile-up in the inner heliosheath (IHS), the region between the termination shock and heliopause. However, Voyager 1 and 2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Sergey D. Korolkov , Igor I. Baliukin , Merav Opher

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo
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