非结构网格的高超声速粘性MHD流场数值模拟

应用数值方法在非结构网格上对磁场干扰下的二维高超声速钝头体粘性绕流进行了数值模拟。控制方程为N-S方程耦合Maxwell方程的粘性MHD方程组,空间离散采用有限体积方法,对流项用AUSM格式计算,粘性项用中心格式求解,时间推进用显式5步Runge-Kutta格式,引用双曲型散度清除技术加强▽.B=0的条件。计算模型为二维钝头体,在高超声速来流条件下,分别对有、无均匀磁场干扰下的流动进行了数值模拟。计算结果表明,在均匀磁场干扰下,激波脱体距离显著增加,物体表面压力急剧下降。对比表明文中发展的计算方法可以准确地进行二维粘性MHD流场的数值模拟。     

较小尺度磁螺旋线管相互作用的数值研究

在子午面内,偶极子场和六极子场适当叠加得到势磁场,势磁场与太阳风长时间相瓦作用得到特殊的冕流背景结构.在这种背景结构下,两个较小尺度的磁螺旋线管模型能够连续浮入到计算域,在计算域内相互作用,触发了日冕物质抛射(CME).在数值模拟这一过程时,较小尺度的磁螺旋线管模型具有同心圆形磁场结构,模型中心等离子压强与边界压强之比m=2,模型的半径分别取为a=0.07 R.和a=0.1 Rs(Rs为太阳半径).在这两种情况下,得到了两种典型的计算结果.当a=0.07 Rs时,两个磁螺旋线管模型相瓦作用,在7 Rs内融合成一个磁螺旋线管模型,向外传播;当a=0.1 Rs时,两个磁螺旋线管模型相互作用,作为一个整体向外传播,在计算域内没有融合到一起,基本上保持各自的磁场结构.      

Evolution of magnetic fields and cosmic ray acceleration in supernova remnants

Observations show that the magnetic field in young supernova remnants (SNRs) is significantly stronger than can be expected from the compression of the circumstellar medium (CSM) by a factor of four expected for strong blast waves. Additionally, the polarization is mainly radial, which is also contrary to expectation from compression of the CSM magnetic field. Cosmic rays (CRs) may help to explain these two observed features. They can increase the compression ratio to factors well over those of regular strong shocks by adding a relativistic plasma component to the pressure, and by draining the shock of energy when CRs escape from the region. The higher compression ratio will also allow for the contact discontinuity, which is subject to the Rayleigh–Taylor (R–T) instability, to reach much further out to the forward shock. This could create a preferred radial polarization of the magnetic field. With an Adaptive Mesh Refinement MHD code (AMRVAC), we simulate the evolution of SNRs with three different configurations of the initial CSM magnetic field, and look at two different equations of state in order to look at the possible influence of a CR plasma component. The spectrum of CRs can be simulated using test particles, of which we also show some preliminary results that agree well with available analytical solutions.     

非结构网格高超声速化学非平衡MHD流场数值模拟

 在非结构网格上对考虑化学非平衡效应的二维高超声速磁流体绕钝头体流动进行了数值模拟。控制方程由二维理想磁流体动力学（MHD）方程和组元连续方程两部分组成,化学动力学模型为5组元17反应模型。MHD方程空间离散采用AUSM格式,时间推进采用显式5步龙格-库塔格式,并通过弱耦合的方式与化学反应控制方程结合在一起。计算模型为二维钝头体,外加磁场为偶极子场,磁场源位于钝头体内部。在高超声速来流条件下,对有、无磁场干扰,是否考虑化学反应下的4种工况进行了数值计算,得到了满意的结果,并与有限的参考文献进行了对比。结果表明本文发展的方法能准确地模拟考虑化学非平衡效应的高超声速MHD流场。     

What are the physical mechanisms of eruptions and CMEs?

CMEs are due to physical phenomena that drive both, eruptions and flares in active regions. Eruptions/CMEs must be driven from initially force-free current-carrying magnetic field. Twisted flux ropes, sigmoids, current lanes and pattern in photospheric current maps show a clear evidence of currents parallel to the magnetic field. Eruptions occur starting from equilibria which have reached some instability threshold. Revisiting several data sets of CME observations we identified different mechanisms leading to this unstable state from a force free field. Boundary motions related to magnetic flux emergence and shearing favor the increase of coronal currents leading to the large flares of November 2003. On the other hand, we demonstrated by numerical simulations that magnetic flux emergence is not a sufficient condition for eruptions. Filament eruptions are interpreted either by a torus instability for an event occurring during the minimum of solar activity either by the diffusion of the magnetic flux reducing the tension of the restraining arcade. We concluded that CME models (tether cutting, break out, loss of equilibrium models) are based on these basic mechanisms for the onset of CMEs.     

太阳风速度的源表面二维结构

以IPS观测数据为基础，在考虑了加速剖面对太阳风源位置和速度大小的影响下，探讨了1984年1745-1755Carrington周太阳风速度在源表面上的二维分布.结果显示：观测和理论结果均显示出此期间北半球太阳风速度明显高于南半球，特别是经度0一30°，300-360°N的高速流均有不同程度的从极区向南侵的现象.低速带与磁中性线有一定程度的类似即均为单峰结构.但理论和观测给出的低速带的峰值位置与磁中性线的峰值位置略有差异，而且磁中性线的报幅大于观测和理论的结果.     

磁鞘等离子体密度统计建模

利用理想磁流体LFM模型的模拟数据,基于非参数统计方法对2004年11月14日03：00UT-07：00UT磁暴恢复相期间磁鞘等离子体平均密度进行建模.分析磁鞘等离子体平均密度与上游太阳风参数、行星际磁场参数及地磁扰动参数的统计关系,建立基于数据降维的经验模型.结果表明,电离层扰动强度因子、太阳风-磁层耦合强度因子和日地空间因果链耦合强度因子是影响磁鞘等离子体平均密度的三个主要方面.磁暴恢复相期间电离层上行离子是磁层环电流和磁尾等离子体的重要离子来源.建模分析过程表明,利用经验模型对空间物理过程开展建模,数据的严重多重共线性通常会导致模型的精度较差.而利用SIR和LPR建立的磁鞘等离子体平均密度随相关参数变化的经验模型可以有效解决该问题,具有较好的预测精度,统计特征显著.     

MHD Waves and Heating in Coronal Holes

Coronal holes have been identified as source regions of the fast solar wind, and MHD wave activity has been detected in coronal holes by remote sensing, and in situ in fast solar wind streams. I review some of the most suggestive wave observations, and discuss the theoretical aspects of MHD wave heating and solar wind acceleration in coronal holes. I review the results of single fluid 2.5D MHD, as well as multi-fluid 2.5D MHD models of waves in coronal holes, the heating, and the acceleration of the solar wind be these waves.     

Stability and waves of transonic laboratory and space plasmas

The properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves and instabilities of laboratory and space plasmas are determined by the overall magnetic confinement geometry and by the detailed distributions of the density, pressure, magnetic field, and background velocity of the plasma. Consequently, measurement of the spectrum of MHD waves (MHD spectroscopy) gives direct information on the internal state of the plasma, provided a theoretical model is available to solve the forward as well as the inverse spectral problems. This terminology entails a program, viz. to improve the accuracy of our knowledge of plasmas, both in the laboratory and in space. Here, helioseismology (which could be considered as one of the forms of MHD spectroscopy) may serve as a luminous example. The required study of magnetohydrodynamic waves and instabilities of both laboratory and space plasmas has been conducted for many years starting from the assumption of static equilibrium. Recently, there is a outburst of interest for plasma states where this assumption is violated. In fusion research, this interest is due to the importance of neutral beam heating and pumped divertor action for the extraction of heat and exhaust needed in future tokamak reactors. Both result in rotation of the plasma with speeds that do not permit the assumption of static equilibrium anymore. In astrophysics, observations in the full range of electromagnetic radiation has revealed the primary importance of plasma flows in such diverse situations as coronal flux tubes, stellar winds, rotating accretion disks, and jets emitted from radio galaxies. These flows have speeds which substantially influence the background stationary equilibrium state, if such a state exists at all. Consequently, it is important to study both the stationary states of magnetized plasmas with flow and the waves and instabilities they exhibit. We will present new results along these lines, extending from the discovery of gaps in the continuous spectrum and low-frequency Alfvén waves driven by rotation to the nonlinear flow patterns that occur when the background speed traverses the full range from sub-slow to super-fast. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.