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The performed magnetohydrodynamic simulation examines the importance of magnetofluid evolution which naturally leads to current sheets in the presence of three-dimensional (3D) magnetic nulls. Initial magnetic field is constructed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 Sanjay Kumar , R. Bhattacharyya

We study the propagation and dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves in a set of numerical models that each include a solar--like stratified atmosphere and a magnetic field with a null point. All simulations have the same magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Lucas A. Tarr , Mark Linton

Numerical MHD simulations of 3D reconnection events in the solar corona have improved enormously over the last few years, not only in resolution, but also in their complexity, enabling more and more realistic modeling. Various ways to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , K. Galsgaard , Å. Nordlund

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

The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en waves is investigated in a zero $\beta$ plasma in the neighbourhood of a pair of two-dimensional null points. This gives an indication of wave propagation in the low $\beta$ solar corona, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood

The solar corona is a hot, dynamic, and highly magnetized plasma environment whose source of energy is not yet well understood. One leading contender for that energy source is the dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves or turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Steven R. Cranmer

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

We investigate the long-term evolution of an initially buoyant magnetic flux tube emerging into a gravitationally-stratified coronal hole environment and report on the resulting oscillations and outflows. We perform 2.5D nonlinear numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 J. A. McLaughlin , G. Verth , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi

We present results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave propagation in a solar magnetic flux tube. Our study aims at understanding the properties of a range of MHD wave modes generated by different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 G. Vigeesh , V. Fedun , S. S. Hasan , R. Erdélyi

Recent advances in theory and computational experiments have shown the need to refine the previous categorisation of magnetic reconnection at three-dimensional null points -- points at which the magnetic field vanishes. We propose here a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 E. R. Priest , D. I. Pontin

We present a novel Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) numerical simulation of a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic flux rope (MFR) -- generated by magnetic reconnections from an initial 3D bipolar sheared field. Magnetic reconnections during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Kamlesh Bora , Satyam Agarwal , Sanjay Kumar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

Detection of a separator line that connects magnetic nulls and the determination of the dynamics and plasma environment of such a structure can improve our understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic reconnection process. However,…

Oscillatory reconnection is a relaxation process in magnetised plasma, with an inherent periodicity that is exclusively dependent on the properties of the background plasma. This study focuses on the seismological prospects of oscillatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Konstantinos Karampelas , James A. McLaughlin , Gert J. J. Botha , Stéphane Régnier

We present a numerical study of an idealized magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) configuration consisting of a planar wake flow embedded into a three-dimensional (3D) sheared magnetic field. Our simulations investigate the possibility for in-situ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. Zaliznyak , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

This paper extends the models of Craig & McClymont (1991) and McLaughlin & Hood (2004) to include finite $\beta$ and nonlinear effects. We investigate the nature of nonlinear fast magnetoacoustic waves about a 2D magnetic X-point. We solve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 J. A. McLaughlin , I. De Moortel , A. W. Hood , C. S. Brady

We have developed 3D, compressible, non-linear radiative MHD simulations to study the influence of the magnetic field of various strength and geometry on the turbulent convective cells and on the excitation mechanisms of the acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-29 Irina Kitiashvili , Laetitia Jacoutot , Alexander Kosovichev , Alan Wray , Nagi Mansour

An enhancement in high-frequency acoustic power is commonly observed in the solar photosphere and chromosphere surrounding magnetic active regions. We perform 3D linear forward wave modelling with a simple wavelet pulse acoustic source to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Carlos Rijs , Hamed Moradi , Damien Przybylski , Paul S. Cally

Oscillatory reconnection is a time-dependent magnetic reconnection mechanism that naturally produces periodic outputs from aperiodic drivers. This paper aims to quantify and measure the periodic nature of oscillatory reconnection for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-06 J. A. McLaughlin , J. O. Thurgood , D. MacTaggart

The work extends the computational model EULAG-MHD to include Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD)---important to explore physical systems undergoing fast magnetic reconnection at the order of the ion inertial length scale. Examples include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Single fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations have been studied through direct numerical simulations (DNS) using pseudo-spectral methods in two as well as three spatial dimensions. At Alfv\'en resonance, a reversible periodic exchange of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Rupak Mukherjee , Rajaraman Ganesh , Abhijit Sen