MHD simulations of reconnection in the solar corona

Physical problems: Magnetic reconnection in solar flares, flux rope stability, MHD turbulence

Numerical code: GOEMHD3

(Recent) Relevant publications:

de Souza e Almeida Silva, S., Santos, J. C., Büchner, J., & Alves, M. V. (2018). Nonlocal heat flux effects on temperature evolution of the solar atmosphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730580
Yang, S., Büchner, J., Skála, J., & Zhang, H. (2018). Evolution of relative magnetic helicity. New boundary conditions for the vector potential. Astronomy & Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628108
Inoue, S., Kusano, K., Büchner, J., & Skála, J. (2018). Formation and dynamics of a solar eruptive flux tube. Nature Communications, 9(1), 174. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02616-8
Widmer, F., Büchner, J., & Yokoi, N. (2016). Characterizing plasmoid reconnection by turbulence dynamics. Physics of Plasmas, 23(9), 92304. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4962694
Widmer, F., Büchner, J., & Yokoi, N. (2016). Sub-grid-scale description of turbulent magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamics. Physics of Plasmas, 23(4), 42311. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4947211
Skála, J., Baruffa, F., Büchner, J., & Rampp, M. (2015). The 3D MHD code GOEMHD3 for astrophysical plasmas with large Reynolds numbers. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 580(25274), A48. Solar and Stellar Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425274