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We computed the thermal microwave emission from a 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and compared it with observations of solar jets. The simulation treats the emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere and its interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Costas E. Alissandrakis , Vasilis Archontis , Kostas Moraitis

Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

Aims. We use magnetic and non-magnetic 3D numerical simulations of solar granulation and G-band radiative diagnostics from the resulting models to analyse the generation of small-scale vortex motions in the solar photosphere. Methods.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Shelyag , P. Keys , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

In this short review, I present some of the recent progresses on the pending questions of solar physics. These questions let us revisit the solar wind, the solar dynamo problem, the dynamics of the photosphere and finally have a glimpse at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Michel Rieutord

We present a formalism for investigating the interaction between pmode oscillations and convection by analyzing realistic, three-dimensional simulations of the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone. By choosing suitable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Å. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

We examine the role of small-scale granulation in helping to drive supergranulation and even larger scales of convection. The granulation is modeled as localized cooling events introduced at the upper boundary of a 3-D simulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-24 Neal Hurlburt , Marc DeRosa , Kyle Augustson , Juri Toomre

Context. The surface structures and dynamics of cool stars are characterized by the presence of convective motions and turbulent flows which shape the emergent spectrum. Aims. We used realistic three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Chiavassa , L. Casagrande , R. Collet , Z. Magic , L. Bigot , F. Thevenin , M. Asplund

We assess the global-scale dynamo action achieved in a simulation of a sun-like star rotating at three times the solar rate. The 3-D MHD Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code, using slope-limited diffusion, is employed to capture convection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Kyle Augustson , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark Steven Miesch , Juri Toomre

A new sub-grid-scale model is developed for studying influences of the Hall term on macroscopic aspects of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Although the Hall term makes numerical simulations extremely expensive by exciting high-wave-number…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Hideaki Miura , Fujihiro Hamba

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

The investigation of dynamics of the small scale magnetic field on the Sun photosphere is necessary to understand the physical processes occurring in the higher layers of solar atmosphere due to the magnetic coupling between the photosphere…

We have performed 3D radiation MHD simulations extending from the convection zone to the corona covering a box 16 Mm$^3$ at 32 km spatial resolution. The simulations show very fine structure in the chromosphere with acoustic shocks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 Mats Carlsson , Viggo H. Hansteen , Boris V. Gudiksen

The interaction of magnetic fields and stratified convection was studied in the context of the solar and late type stellar dynamos by using numerical 3D MHD simulations. The topology of stratified asymmetric and over-turning convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertil Dorch , Aake Nordlund

Turbulent convection processes in nature are often found to be organized in a hierarchy of plume structures and flow patterns. The gradual aggregation of convection cells or granules to a supergranule which eventually fills the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-16 Philipp P. Vieweg , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

Downflows on the solar surface are suspected to play a major role in the dynamics of the convection zone. We investigate the existence of the long-lasting downflows whose effects influence the interior of the Sun and the outer layers. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 T. Roudier , M. Švanda , J. M. Malherbe , J. Ballot , D. Korda , Z. Frank

We use the three-dimensional hydrodynamic code of Stein and Nordlund to realistically simulate the upper layers of the solar convection zone in order to study physical characteristics of solar oscillations. Our first result is that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Georgobiani , A. G. Kosovichev , R. Nigam , A. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

Differences between observed and theoretical eigenfrequencies of the Sun have characteristics which identify them as arising predominantly from properties of the oscillations in the vicinity of the solar surface: in the super-adiabatic,…

We present a first 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of convective oxygen and neon shell burning in a non-rotating $18\, M_\odot$ star shortly before core collapse to study the generation of magnetic fields in supernova progenitors.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Vishnu Varma , Bernhard Müller

The Sun provides us with the only spatially well-resolved astrophysical example of turbulent thermal convection. While various aspects of solar photospheric turbulence, such as granulation (one-Megameter horizontal scale), are well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-14 F. Rincon , T. Roudier , A. A. Schekochihin , M. Rieutord