Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002phdt........16b&link_type=abstract
Thesis (PhD). MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Source DAI-B 63/05, p. 2422, Nov 2002, 131 pages.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Three-dimensional numerical simulations are used to study the dynamic interaction between magnetic fields and convective motions near the solar surface. The magnetic field is found to be transported by convective motions from granules to the intergranular lanes, where it collects and is compressed. A convective instability causes the upper levels of magnetic regions to be evacuated, compressing the field beyond equipartition values, and forming “flux tubes” or “flux sheets”. The degree to which the field is compressed controls how much convective transport is suppressed within the flux structure, and ultimately determines whether the magnetic feature appears brighter or darker than its surroundings. For this reason, the continuum intensity is not a good tracer of the lifetimes of magnetic features, since their bright/dark signature is transient in nature. Larger magnetic structures form at sites where a granule submerges and the surrounding field is pushed into the resulting dark hole. These micropores are devoid of flow in their interior and cool by radiating radially. The convective downflows that collar the micropore heat its edges by lateral radiation, but fail to penetrate far enough into the interior to prevent an overall cooling, and therefore darkening, of the micropore. Magnetic features undergo numerous mergers or splittings during their lifetimes as a result of being pushed and squeezed by the expansion of adjacent granules. Larger structures survive for several convective turnover times, but smaller structures are too weak to resist convective motions, and are destroyed on a convective time scale.
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