Modelling magnetic flux ropes in solar, stellar, and laboratory contexts
Abstract
Magnetic flux ropes are generally accepted to be critical to the processes of energy storage and release in solar activity, and by extension stellar activity, and are fundamental to the description of laboratory plasma devices. In this talk I will present a review of the understanding of the physics of magnetic flux ropes in solar, stellar, and laboratory contexts, with a focus on methods for modelling flux ropes, and the insight they provide into the mechanisms for solar/stellar activity, and magnetic energy release more generally. I will highlight the similarities and differences in the physical assumptions underlying the models, and identify possible future directions for work.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E1754W