MHD simulations of magnetotail dynamics

1996 ◽  
Vol 101 (A6) ◽  
pp. 12939-12954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Birn ◽  
Michael Hesse ◽  
Karl Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Mhd Simulations ◽  
Magnetotail Dynamics

A comparison of MHD simulations of magnetotail dynamics

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Birn ◽  
F. Iinoya ◽  
J. U. Brackbill ◽  
M. Hesse
Keyword(s):  
Mhd Simulations ◽  
Magnetotail Dynamics

scholarly journals Studies of magnetotail dynamics and energy evolution during substorms using MHD simulations

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1717-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Brogl ◽  
R. E. Lopez ◽  
M. Wiltberger ◽  
H. K. Rassoul
Keyword(s):  
Growth Phase ◽  
Plasma Sheet ◽  
Magnetic Energy ◽  
Substorm Onset ◽  
Energy Evolution ◽  
Polar Cap ◽  
Expansion Phase ◽  
Mhd Simulations ◽  
Hydrodynamic Code ◽  
Magnetotail Dynamics

Abstract. We examine the distribution and propagation of energy in the plasma sheet and lobes using observations and simulations for three substorms. The substorms occurred on 9 March 1995, 10 December 1996, and 27 August 2001 and have been simulated using the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry magneto-hydrodynamic code. All three events occur over North America and show a clear substorm current wedge over the ground magnetometer chains of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. The three simulations show the thinning of the plasma sheet during the growth phase of the event and an increase in the relative amount of thermal energy due to the compression of the plasma sheet. Generally, the total lobe energy, polar cap flux, and lobe magnetic field strength simultaneously increase during the growth phase, and polar cap flux and total lobe energy only start dropping at substorm onset, as measured by the CANOPUS magnetometer chain. Starting at time of onset and continuing throughout the expansion phase a transfer of magnetic energy from the lobes into the plasma sheet occurs, with the increase in the plasma sheet energy ranging from 30–40% of the energy that is released from the lobes.

Simulated synchrotron emission for the Tycho’s supernova remnants: an asymmetric initial mass model

2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (2) ◽  
pp. 1531-1538
Author(s):  
A Moranchel-Basurto ◽  
P F Velázquez ◽  
G Ares de Parga ◽  
E M Reynoso ◽  
E M Schneiter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supernova Remnants ◽  
Brightness Distribution ◽  
Radio Continuum ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Synchrotron Emission ◽  
Mass Model ◽  
Mhd Simulations ◽  
Tycho’S Snr ◽  
Good Agreement

ABSTRACT We have performed 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations with the aim of exploring the scenario in which the initial mass distribution of a supernova (SN) explosion is anisotropic. The purpose is to analyse if this scenario can also explain the radio-continuum emission and the expansion observed in young supernova remnants (SNRs). To study the expansion, synthetic polarized synchrotron emission maps were computed from the MHD simulations. We found a good agreement (under a number of assumptions) between this expansion study and previous observational results applied to Tycho’s SNR, which represents a good example of asymmetric young SNRs. Additionally, both the observed morphology and the brightness distribution are qualitatively reproduced.

scholarly journals Can Multi-threaded Flux Tubes in Coronal Arcades Support a Magnetohydrodynamic Avalanche?

Solar Physics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 296 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Threlfall ◽  
J. Reid ◽  
A. W. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Coronal Loops ◽  
Flux Tubes ◽  
Single Thread ◽  
Mhd Instabilities ◽  
Mhd Instability ◽  
Mhd Simulations ◽  
Ideal Mhd ◽  
Model Geometry

AbstractMagnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities allow energy to be released from stressed magnetic fields, commonly modelled in cylindrical flux tubes linking parallel planes, but, more recently, also in curved arcades containing flux tubes with both footpoints in the same photospheric plane. Uncurved cylindrical flux tubes containing multiple individual threads have been shown to be capable of sustaining an MHD avalanche, whereby a single unstable thread can destabilise many. We examine the properties of multi-threaded coronal loops, wherein each thread is created by photospheric driving in a realistic, curved coronal arcade structure (with both footpoints of each thread in the same plane). We use three-dimensional MHD simulations to study the evolution of single- and multi-threaded coronal loops, which become unstable and reconnect, while varying the driving velocity of individual threads. Experiments containing a single thread destabilise in a manner indicative of an ideal MHD instability and consistent with previous examples in the literature. The introduction of additional threads modifies this picture, with aspects of the model geometry and relative driving speeds of individual threads affecting the ability of any thread to destabilise others. In both single- and multi-threaded cases, continuous driving of the remnants of disrupted threads produces secondary, aperiodic bursts of energetic release.

What is Cluster telling us about magnetotail dynamics?

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1909-1915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Baumjohann ◽  
Rumi Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Magnetotail Dynamics
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