30 research outputs found
Magnetohydrodynamic shocks in and above post-flare loops: two-dimensional simulation and a simplified model
Solar flares are an explosive phenomenon, where super-sonic flows and shocks
are expected in and above the post-flare loops. To understand the dynamics of
post-flare loops, a two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (2D MHD) simulation of
a solar flare has been carried out. We found new shock structures in and above
the post-flare loops, which were not resolved in the previous work by Yokoyama
and Shibata 2001. To study the dynamics of flows along the reconnected magnetic
field, kinematics and energetics of the plasma are investigated along selected
field lines. It is found that shocks are crucial to determine the thermal and
flow structures in the post-flare loops. On the basis of the 2D MHD simulation,
we have developed a new post-flare loop model which we call the pseudo-2D MHD
model. The model is based on the 1D MHD equations, where all the variables
depend on one space dimension and all the three components of the magnetic and
velocity fields are considered. Our pseudo-2D model includes many features of
the multi-dimensional MHD processes related to magnetic reconnection
(particularly MHD shocks), which the previous 1D hydrodynamic models are not
able to include. We compare the shock formation and energetics of a specific
field line in the 2D calculation with those in our pseudo-2D MHD model, and we
found that they give similar results. This model will allow us to study the
evolution of the post-flare loops in a wide parameter space without expensive
computational cost and without neglecting important physics associated with
magnetic reconnection.Comment: 51 pages, 22 figures. Accepted by Ap
Stability and Ly emission of Cold Stream in the Circumgalactic Medium: impact of magnetic fields and thermal conduction
Cold streams of gas with temperatures around play a crucial
role in the gas accretion on to high-redshift galaxies. The current resolution
of cosmological simulations is insufficient to fully capture the stability and
Ly emission characteristics of cold stream accretion, underscoring the
imperative need for conducting idealized high-resolution simulations. We
investigate the impact of magnetic fields at various angles and anisotropic
thermal conduction (TC) on the dynamics of radiatively cooling streams through
a comprehensive suite of two-dimensional high-resolution simulations. An
initially small magnetic field (), oriented
non-parallel to the stream, can grow significantly, providing stability against
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and reducing the Ly emission by a factor
of compared to the hydrodynamics case. With TC, the stream evolution can
be categorised into three regimes: (1) the Diffusing Stream regime, where the
stream diffuses into the surrounding hot circumgalactic medium; (2) the
Intermediate regime, where TC diffuses the mixing layer, resulting in enhanced
stabilization and reduced emissions; (3) the Condensing Stream regime, where
the impact of magnetic field and TC on the stream's emission and evolution
becomes negligible. Extrapolating our findings to the cosmological context
suggests that cold streams with a radius of may fuel
galaxies with cold, metal-enriched, magnetized gas () for a longer time, leading to a broad range of Ly luminosity
signatures of .Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, 1 video link (https://youtu.be/zhNCGoiUYgE), 3
Appendices; accepted to MNRAS (December 2023