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In this paper we study the role of radiative cooling in a two-fluid model consisting of coupled neutrals and charged particles. We first analyze the linearized two-fluid equations where we include radiative losses in the energy equation for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Rony Keppens

A significant impediment to solving the coronal heating problem is that we currently only observe active region (AR) loops in their cooling phase. Previous studies showed that the evolution of cooling loop densities and apex temperatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , John E. Unverferth , Harry P. Warren

We study the propagation properties of slow magneto-acoustic waves in a multi-thermal coronal loop using a 3D MHD model, for the first time. A bundle of 33 vertical cylinders, each of 100{\,}km radius, randomly distributed over a circular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Krishna Prasad , T. Van Doorsselaere

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

This work is devoted to the study of the influence of temperature anisotropy and parallel heat flux on the stability of supersonic shear flow in collisionless plasmas. Within a fluid-based framework, we employ the 16-moment transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Namig S. Dzhalilov

Thermally bistable fluid tends to self-organize into clouds of hot and cold material, which are internally uniform and separated by thin conduction fronts. The evolution of these clouds has been studied for isobaric systems, but when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Coronal loops, constituting the basic building blocks of the active Sun, serve as primary targets to help understand the mechanisms responsible for maintaining multi-million Kelvin temperatures in the solar and stellar coronae. Despite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , J. A. Klimchuk , D. Banerjee

This work addresses the problem of plasma condensation and ``catastrophic cooling'' in solar coronal loops. We have carried out numerical calculations of coronal loops and find several classes of time-dependent solutions (static, periodic,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. N. Mueller , H. Peter , V. H. Hansteen

The effect of temperature inhomogeneity on the periods, their ratios (fundamental vs. first overtone), and the damping times of the standing slow modes in gravitationally stratified solar coronal loops are studied. The effects of optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Abedini , H. Safari , S. Nasiri

A well known behavior of EUV light curves of discrete coronal loops is that the peak intensities of cooler channels or spectral lines are reached at progressively later times than hotter channels. This time lag is understood to be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

This paper develops the zero-dimensional (0D) hydrodynamic coronal loop model "Enthalpy-based Thermal Evolution of Loops" (EBTEL) proposed by Klimchuk et al (2008), which studies the plasma response to evolving coronal heating, especially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Peter J. Cargill , Stephen J. Bradshaw , James A. Klimchuk

A large part of the hot corona consists of magnetically confined, bright plasma loops. These observed loops are in turn structured into bright strands. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field geometry, plasma properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 C. A. Breu , D. I. Pontin , E. Priest , I. De Moortel

The literature on thermal instability (TI) reveals that even for a simple homogeneous plasma, the nonlinear outcome ranges from a gentle reconfiguration of the initial state to an explosive one, depending on whether the condensations that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-28 Tim Waters , Daniel Proga

Adopting the MPI-AMRVAC code, we present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, which includes thermal conduction and radiative cooling, to investigate the formation and evolution of the coronal rain phenomenon. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou

We test how metallicity variation (a background gradient and fluctuations) affects the physics of local thermal instability using analytical calculations and idealized, high-resolution 1D hydrodynamic simulations. Although the cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-12 Hitesh Kishore Das , Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma

We study the stability and the modes of non -- isothermal coronal loop models with different intensity values of the equilibrium twisted magnetic field.We use an energy principle obtained via non -- equilibrium thermodynamic arguments. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Costa , R. Gonzalez

We present a study of the temporal evolution of coronal loops in active regions and its implications for the dynamics in coronal loops. We analyzed images of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 S. Kamio , H. Peter , W. Curdt , S. K. Solanki

Curvature perturbations with short wavelengths exit the Hubble horizon when the universe may contain a thermal plasma in addition to an inflaton field that drives its expansion. We solve the corresponding fluctuation-dissipation dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 M. Laine , S. Procacci , A. Rogelj

Observed spectral profiles of emission lines from the corona are found to have widths exceeding the thermal line width. To investigate the physical mechanism, we run a 3D MHD model of a single, straightened loop in which we partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 C. A. Breu , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , R. Cameron , I. De Moortel

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla