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Simulating waves in the upper solar atmosphere with Surya: A well-balanced high-order finite volume code

by F. G. Fuchs and A. D. McMurray and S. Mishra and K. Waagan

(Report number 2010-47)

Abstract
We consider propagation of waves in a stratified non-isothermal magnetic atmosphere. The situation of interest corresponds to waves in the outer solar (chromosphere and corona) and other stellar atmospheres. The waves are simulated by using a high-resolution, well-balanced finite volume based massively parallel code termed SURYA. Numerical experiments in both two and three space dimensions involving realistic temperature distributions, driving forces and magnetic field configurations are described. Diverse phenomena like mode conversion, wave acceleration at the transition layer and driving dependent wave dynamics are observed. We obtain evidence for the presence of coronal Alfvén waves in some three dimensional configurations. Although some of the incident wave energy is transmitted into the corona, a large proportion of it is accumulated in the chromosphere providing a possible mechanism for chromospheric heating.

Keywords:

@Techreport{FMMW10_445,
  author = {F. G. Fuchs and A. D. McMurray and S. Mishra and K. Waagan},
  title = {Simulating waves in the upper solar atmosphere with Surya: A well-balanced high-order finite volume code},
  institution = {Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z{\"u}rich},
  number = {2010-47},
  address = {Switzerland},
  url = {https://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/sam_reports/reports_final/reports2010/2010-47.pdf },
  year = {2010}
}

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