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Title:
Intermittent heating of the solar corona by MHD turbulence
Authors:
Buchlin, É.
Affiliation:
AA(Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK )
Publication:
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Volume 14, Issue 5, 2007, pp.649-654 (COPERNICUS Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2007
Origin:
COPERNICUS
Bibliographic Code:
2007NPGeo..14..649B

Abstract

As the dissipation mechanisms considered for the heating of the solar corona would be sufficiently efficient only in the presence of small scales, turbulence is thought to be a key player in the coronal heating processes: it allows indeed to transfer energy from the large scales to these small scales. While Direct numerical simulations which have been performed to investigate the properties of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the corona have provided interesting results, they are limited to small Reynolds numbers. We present here a model of coronal loop turbulence involving shell-models and Alfvén waves propagation, allowing the much faster computation of spectra and turbulence statistics at higher Reynolds numbers. We also present first results of the forward-modelling of spectroscopic observables in the UV.
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