2D Simulations of the Chromosphere using GPU

The sun's corona is much hotter than the sun's atmosphere. This problem, called the coronal heating problem, is still an outstanding problem in solar physics. The sun's atmosphere, the chromosphere, is a partially ionized plasma where the ion-neutral collisions and Alfven waves play a big role in heating the corona. In this talk I will explain the problem and how I modeled my simulation to explore the sun's chromosphere. I will introduce the motivation behind my simulation, go into some details of the implementation and show some preliminary results.