Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Dec 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986epos.conf..7.1k&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Energetic Phenomena on the Sun: The Solar Maximum Mission Flare Workshop. Proceedings 9 p
Statistics
Computation
Coronal Loops, Mathematical Models, Plasmas (Physics), Solar Physics, Sun, Computation, Ions, Plasma Temperature, Solar Electrons, Solar Maximum Mission, Ultraviolet Radiation
Scientific paper
The proposed Benchmark Problem consists of an infinitesimal magnetic flux tube containing a low-beta plasma. The field strength is assumed to be so large that the plasma can move only along the flux tube, whose shape remains invariant with time (i.e., the fluid motion is essentially one-dimensional). The flux tube cross section is taken to be constant over its entire length. In planar view the flux tube has a semi-circular shape, symmetric about its midpoint s = smax and intersecting the chromosphere-corona interface (CCI) perpendicularly at each foot point. The arc length from the loop apex to the CCI is 10,000 km. The flux tube extends an additional 2000 km below the CCI to include the chromosphere, which initially has a uniform temperature of 8000 K. The temperature at the top of the loop was fixed initially at 2 X 1 million K. The plasma is assumed to be a perfect gas (gamma = 5/3), consisting of pure hydrogen which is considered to be fully ionized at all temperatures. For simplicity, moreover, the electron and ion temperatures are taken to be everywhere equal at all times (corresponding to an artificially enhanced electron-ion collisional coupling). While there was more-or-less unanimous agreement as to certain global properties of the system behavior (peak temperature reached, thermal-wave time scales, etc.), no two groups could claim satisfactory accord when a more detailed comparison of solutions was attempted.
Fisher George H.
Kopp Roger A.
MacNeice Peter
McWhirter W. P. R.
Peres Giovanni
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