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We introduce a network (graph) theoretic community-based framework to extract vortical structures that serve the role of connectors for the vortical interactions in two- and three-dimensional isotropic turbulence. The present framework…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena , Kunihiko Taira

Vortex motions are frequently observed on the solar photosphere. These motions may play a key role in the transport of energy and momentum from the lower atmosphere into the upper solar atmosphere, contributing to coronal heating. The lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 B. Snow , V. Fedun , F. A. Gent , G. Verth , R. Erdélyi

Vortex-flows exist across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales in the solar atmosphere. Small-scale vortices have been proposed to play an important role in energy transport in the solar atmosphere. However, their physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Nitin Yadav , Robert H. Cameron , Sami K. Solanki

Vortex flows have been found in the photosphere, chromosphere and low corona in observations and simulations. It has been suggested that vortices play an important role for channeling energy and plasma into the corona, but the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

Solar vortex regions show enhanced Poynting flux and favourable heating conditions, but how the vortices reorganize and influence their surroundings remains unclear. Here we apply information-theoretic diagnostics to a Bifrost simulation to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Suzana S. A. Silva , Erico Rempel , Gary Verth , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun

In this work, a state-of-the-art vortex detection method, Instantaneous Vorticity Deviation, is applied to locate three-dimensional vortex tube boundaries in numerical simulations of solar photospheric magnetoconvection performed by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Suzana S. A. Silva , Viktor Fedun , Gary Verth , Erico L. Rempel , Sergiy Shelyag

A network community-based reduced-order model is developed to capture key interactions amongst coherent structures in high-dimensional unsteady vortical flows. The present approach is data-inspired and founded on network-theoretic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena , Aditya G. Nair , Kunihiko Taira

Aims. Due to the fundamental importance of vortices on the photosphere, in this work we aim to fully automate the process of intensity vortex identification to facilitate a more robust statistical analysis of their properties. Methods.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-26 Ioannis Giagkiozis , Viktor Fedun , Eamon Scullion , Gary Verth

The propagation and dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves play a key role in transporting energy from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. Using high-resolution three-dimensional radiative MHD simulations, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Nitin Yadav , Apanba Khuman

Clusters of co-rotating vortices on compact fluid domains exhibit a simple collective dynamics, combining coherent global rotation with a slow breathing of the cluster size. In this work, we investigate an analytically tractable model of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Aswathy KR , Rickmoy Samanta

Vortex flows are structures associated with the rotation of the plasma and/or the magnetic field that are present throughout the solar atmosphere. In recent years, their study has become increasingly important, as they are present on a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 M. Koll Pistarini , E. Khomenko , T. Felipe

Solar "magnetic tornadoes" are produced by rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the upper convection zone and the photosphere to the corona of the Sun. Recent studies show that such rotating features are an integral part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yoshiaki Kato , Sven Wedemeyer

Vortex-type motions have been measured by tracking bright points in high-resolution observations of the solar photosphere. These small-scale motions are thought to be determinant in the evolution of magnetic footpoints and their interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Balmaceda , S. Vargas Domínguez , J. Palacios , I. Cabello , V. Domingo

Context. There remains much mystery about how or if wave-energy in the photosphere can be transferred sufficiently upwards through the solar atmosphere to contribute to coronal heating. In light of a plethora of theoretical and idealised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley , Quentin Noraz

The relationship between vortex flows at different spatial scales and their contribution to the energy balance in the chromosphere is not yet fully understood. We perform three-dimensional (3D) radiation-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Nitin Yadav , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

High-resolution solar observations have revealed the existence of small-scale vortices, as seen in chromospheric intensity maps and velocity diagnostics. Frequently, these vortices have been observed near magnetic flux concentrations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 S. M. Díaz-Castillo , C. E. Fischer , R. Rezaei , O. Steiner , S. Berdyugina

Emergent lattices at mesoscopic length scales have evoked interest in several recent contexts, e.g., in crystalline arrangements of skyrmions. It is a challenging task to determine their collective excitations as the unit cells are large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-04 Bhargava B. A. , R. Ganesh

Solar vortices are fundamental components of solar atmospheric dynamics, serving as natural laboratories for magnetic field twisting, energy concentration and transport, wave guidance, and plasma coupling across atmospheric layers.…

Small-scale vortices in the solar photosphere play a central role in transporting mass, energy, and momentum into the upper solar atmosphere, yet reliably detecting these structures remains rather challenging. We address this problem by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Lauren McClure , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun

Context. Ubiquitous small-scale vortical motions are seen to occur in the solar atmosphere both in simulations and observations. They are thought to play a significant role in the local heating of the quiet chromosphere and corona. In a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 J. R. Canivete Cuissa , O. Steiner
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