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The Onset of Magnetic Reconnection in Dynamically Evolving Current Sheets
James Leake, Lars Daldorff, James Klimchuk
We present the first results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the onset of magnetic reconnection via the tearing instability in dynamica…
Simulating the photospheric to coronal plasma using magnetohydrodyanamic characteristics I: data-driven boundary conditions
Lucas A. Tarr, N. Dylan Kee, Mark G. Linton +2
We develop a general description of how information propagates through a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system based on the method of characteristics and use that to formulate numerical…
The Thickness of Electric Current Sheets and Implications for Coronal Heating
James A. Klimchuk, James E. Leake, Lars K. S. Daldorff +1
The thickness of current sheets is extremely important, especially as it relates to the onset of fast magnetic reconnection. Onset determines how much magnetic free energy can buil…
Toward A Self Consistent MHD Model of Chromospheres and Winds From Late Type Evolved Stars
V. S. Airapetian, J. E. Leake, K. G. Carpenter
We present the first magnetohydrodynamic model of the stellar chromospheric heating and acceleration of the outer atmospheres of cool evolved stars, using alpha Tau as a case study…