A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS-RELAXATION METHOD FOR NONLINEAR FORCE-FREE FIELD EXTRAPOLATION IN THE SOLAR CORONA
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| 作者 | Jiang, Chaowei; Feng, Xueshang |
| 刊名 | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
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| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 卷号 | 749期号:2页码:135 |
| 关键词 | magnetic fields magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) methods: numerical Sun: corona |
| ISSN号 | 0004-637X |
| 通讯作者 | Jiang, CW (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, SIGMA Weather Grp, Ctr Space Sci & Appl Res, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China. |
| 中文摘要 | The magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from a photospheric vector magnetogram using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model. NLFFF extrapolation needs considerable effort to be devoted to its numerical realization. In this paper, we present a new implementation of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) relaxation method for NLFFF extrapolation. The magnetofrictional approach, which is introduced for speeding the relaxation of the MHD system, is realized for the first time by the spacetime conservation-element and solution-element scheme. A magnetic field splitting method is used to further improve the computational accuracy. The bottom boundary condition is prescribed by incrementally changing the transverse field to match the magnetogram, and all other artificial boundaries of the computational box are simply fixed. We examine the code using two types of NLFFF benchmark tests, the Low & Lou semi-analytic force-free solutions and a more realistic solar-like case constructed by van Ballegooijen et al. The results show that our implementation is successful and versatile for extrapolations of either the relatively simple cases or the rather complex cases that need significant rebuilding of the magnetic topology, e.g., a flux rope. We also compute a suite of metrics to quantitatively analyze the results and demonstrate that the performance of our code in extrapolation accuracy basically reaches the same level of the present best-performing code, i.e., that developed by Wiegelmann. |
| 英文摘要 | The magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from a photospheric vector magnetogram using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model. NLFFF extrapolation needs considerable effort to be devoted to its numerical realization. In this paper, we present a new implementation of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) relaxation method for NLFFF extrapolation. The magnetofrictional approach, which is introduced for speeding the relaxation of the MHD system, is realized for the first time by the spacetime conservation-element and solution-element scheme. A magnetic field splitting method is used to further improve the computational accuracy. The bottom boundary condition is prescribed by incrementally changing the transverse field to match the magnetogram, and all other artificial boundaries of the computational box are simply fixed. We examine the code using two types of NLFFF benchmark tests, the Low & Lou semi-analytic force-free solutions and a more realistic solar-like case constructed by van Ballegooijen et al. The results show that our implementation is successful and versatile for extrapolations of either the relatively simple cases or the rather complex cases that need significant rebuilding of the magnetic topology, e.g., a flux rope. We also compute a suite of metrics to quantitatively analyze the results and demonstrate that the performance of our code in extrapolation accuracy basically reaches the same level of the present best-performing code, i.e., that developed by Wiegelmann. |
| 学科主题 | 空间物理 |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 资助信息 | National Natural Science Foundation of China [41031066, 40921063, 40890162, 41074122]; 973 project [2012CB825601]; Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories; NASA's HPCC; ESTO/CT; NASA/AISR [NNG04GP79G] |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 公开日期 | 2014-12-15 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.nssc.ac.cn/handle/122/3250]  |
| 专题 | 国家空间科学中心_空间科学部 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jiang, Chaowei,Feng, Xueshang. A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS-RELAXATION METHOD FOR NONLINEAR FORCE-FREE FIELD EXTRAPOLATION IN THE SOLAR CORONA[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2012,749(2):135. |
| APA | Jiang, Chaowei,&Feng, Xueshang.(2012).A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS-RELAXATION METHOD FOR NONLINEAR FORCE-FREE FIELD EXTRAPOLATION IN THE SOLAR CORONA.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,749(2),135. |
| MLA | Jiang, Chaowei,et al."A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS-RELAXATION METHOD FOR NONLINEAR FORCE-FREE FIELD EXTRAPOLATION IN THE SOLAR CORONA".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 749.2(2012):135. |
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