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Energy Distribution of Nanoflares in Three-Dimensional Simulations of Coronal Heating
C. S. Ng, L. Lin
In a recent computational campaign [Ng et al., Astrophys. J. 747, 109, 2012] to investigate a three-dimensional model of coronal heating using reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD),…
A Constrained Tectonics Model for Coronal Heating
C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee
An analytical and numerical treatment is given of a constrained version of the tectonics model developed by Priest, Heyvaerts, & Title [2002]. We begin with an initial uniform magn…
Anisotropic MHD Turbulence
C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee
The solar wind and the interstellar medium are permeated by large-scale magnetic fields that render magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence anisotropic. In the weak-turbulence limit i…
Kolmogorov versus Iroshnikov-Kraichnan spectra: Consequences for ion heating in the solar wind
C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, D. Munsi +2
Whether the phenomenology governing MHD turbulence is Kolmogorov or Iroshnikov-Kraichnan (IK) remains an open question, theoretically as well as observationally. The ion heating pr…
The Effect of Magnetic Turbulence Energy Spectra and Pickup Ions on the Heating of the Solar Wind
C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, P. A. Isenberg +2
In recent years, a phenomenological solar wind heating model based on a turbulent energy cascade prescribed by the Kolmogorov theory has produced reasonably good agreement with obs…
High Lundquist Number Resistive MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection: Searching for Secondary Island Formation
C. S. Ng, S. Ragunathan
Recently, secondary island formation due to the tearing instability of the Sweet-Parker current sheet was identified as a possible mechanism that can lead to fast reconnection (les…