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We compute numerical simulations of spherical collapse triggered by a slow increase in external pressure. We compare isothermal models to models including cooling with a simple but self-consistent treatment of the coupling between gas,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lesaffre , A. Belloche , J. -P. Chieze , P. Andre

The relationships among coronal loop structures at different temperatures is not settled. Previous studies have suggested that coronal loops in the core of an active region are not seen cooling through lower temperatures and therefore are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

The dynamical evolution of hot optically thin plasmas in the ISM crucially depends on the heating and cooling processes. It is essential to realize that all physical processes that contribute operate on different time scales. In particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dieter Breitschwerdt

We use the cellular automaton model described in L\'opez Fuentes \& Klimchuk (2015, ApJ, 799, 128) to study the evolution of coronal loop plasmas. The model, based on the idea of a critical misalignment angle in tangled magnetic fields,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Marcelo López Fuentes , James A. Klimchuk

Plasma-filled loop structures are common in the solar corona. Because detailed modeling of the dynamical evolution of these structures is computationally costly, an efficient method for computing approximate but quick physics-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Abhishek Rajhans , Durgesh Tripathi , Stephen Bradshaw , Vinay Kashyap , James Klimchuk

Solar flares are associated with intense soft X-ray emission generated by the hot flaring plasma. Kink unstable twisted flux-ropes provide a source of magnetic energy which can be released impulsively and account for the flare plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 R. F. Pinto , N. Vilmer , A. S. Brun

The interior transmission eigenvalue problem (ITP) plays a central role in inverse scattering theory and in the spectral analysis of inhomogeneous media. Despite its smooth dependence on the refractive index at the PDE level, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Davide Pradovera , Alessandro Borghi , Lukas Pieronek , Andreas Kleefeld

We model the hydrodynamic evolution of the plasma confined in a coronal loop, 30000 km long, subject to the heating of nanoflares due to intermittent magnetic dissipative events in the MHD turbulence produced by loop footpoint motions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Reale , G. Nigro , F. Malara , G. Peres , P. Veltri

A full 3-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation is conducted to investigate the thermal responses of a coronal loop to the dynamic dissipation processes of MHD waves. When the foot points of the loop are randomly and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Takuma Matsumoto

Wall cooling has substantial effects on the development of instabilities and transition processes in hypersonic boundary layers (HBLs). A sequence of linear stability theory, two-dimensional and non-linear three-dimensional DNSs is used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Unnikrishnan , Datta V. Gaitonde

The manuscript reports the observation of time dependent localized and non-propagating structures in the coupled laser plasma system through 1-D fluid and PIC simulations. It is reported that such structures form spontaneously as a result…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Deepa Verma , Ratan Kumar Bera , Atul Kumar , Bhavesh Patel , Amita Das

The hot plasma filling galaxy clusters emits copious X-ray radiation. The classic unheated and unperturbed cooling flow model predicts dramatic cooling rates and an isobaric X-ray spectrum with constant differential luminosity distribution.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 M. Gaspari

Evidence for small amounts of very hot plasma has been found in active regions and might be the indication of an impulsive heating, released at spatial scales smaller than the cross section of a single loop. We investigate the heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 E. Tajfirouze , F. Reale , A. Petralia , P. Testa

The temperature of the solar atmosphere increases from thousands to millions of degrees moving from the lower layer (chromosphere) to the outermost one (corona), while the density drops accordingly. The mechanism behind this phenomenon,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Luca Barbieri , Lapo Casetti , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi

Collisional self-interactions occurring in protostellar jets give rise to strong shocks, the structure of which can be affected by radiative cooling within the flow. To study such colliding flows, we use the AstroBEAR AMR code to conduct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 R. N. Markwick , A. Frank , J. Carroll-Nellenback , B. Liu , E. G. Blackman , S. V. Lebedev , P. M. Hartigan

Supersonic turbulent motions are the remarkable properties of interstellar medium. Previous numerical simulations have demonstrated that the thermal instability in a shock-compressed layer produces the supersonic turbulent motion that does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Intrinsic instabilities of laminar premixed flames play an important role in the dynamics of hydrogen combustion and in the development of predictive models for reacting flows. However, determining their dispersion relations typically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Thomas Ludwig Kaiser , Peter Munch , Sandra May , Thorsten Zirwes

The Enthalpy Based Thermal Evolution of Loops (EBTEL) approximate model for static and dynamic coronal loops is developed to include the effect of a loop cross-sectional area which increases from the base of the transition region (TR) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 P. J. Cargill , S. J. Bradshaw , J. A. Klimchuk , W. T. Barnes

The periodic coronal rain and in-phase radiative intensity pulsations have been observed in multiple wavelengths in recent years. However, due to the lack of three-dimensional coronal magnetic fields and thermodynamic data in observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , J. H. Guo , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Haocheng Yu , Y. W. Ni , Chun Xia

Recent developments in the observation and modelling of kink oscillations of coronal loops have led to heightened interest over the last few years. The modification of the Transverse Density Profile (TDP) of oscillating coronal loops by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Christopher Rhys Goddard , Patrick Antolin , David James Pascoe