Multi-ion Dynamics of the Slow Solar Wind in Coronal Streamers

日冕流中缓慢太阳风的多离子动力学

• 批准号: 1059838
• 负责人: Leon Ofman
• 金额: $ 32.1万
• 依托单位: Catholic University of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059838&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multi; ion; Dynamics; Slow; Solar

The Principal Investigator (PI) will perform a computational study of the formation and acceleration of the multi-ion solar wind in coronal streamers. He is motivated by the fact that previous MHD studies that have attempted to describe the solar wind plasma as a single fluid did not reproduce the observed properties of solar wind ions. In this effort, the PI will investigate the solar wind's multi-ion dynamics and compositional variations by developing comprehensive multidimensional and multi-fluid models of coronal streamers that incorporate heavy ions along with protons and electrons as separate but coupled fluids. He will study the effects of preferential heavy-ion heating and ion temperature anisotropies by including empirical heating terms, as well as wave heating and acceleration terms, in his new models. The PI will perform detailed comparisons between his models and available spectroscopic observations by calculating the ultraviolet (UV) emissivity expected from his multi-fluid model output. The computation of coronal emission based on the PI's models will allow him to estimate the expected intensity of UV spectral lines that will be detected using future coronagraphic instruments. This research will lead to a better understanding of the slow solar wind's composition and structure, as well as of the acceleration and heating processes that affect its plasma components. This project will promote research and education by involving a graduate student who belongs to an underrepresented minority group, as well as by training a postdoctoral scholar. The numerical codes developed in this project will strengthen the nation's computational infrastructure by providing massively parallel multi-fluid models for use by other researchers. The PI's multidimensional, multi-fluid numerical modeling codes will be made available to the broader scientific community for ongoing solar wind research, as well as for other applications where multi-ion plasmas are present, such as in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

首席研究员（PI）将对冠状流媒体中多离子太阳风的形成和加速度进行计算研究。他的动机是，以前试图将太阳风血浆描述为单个流体的MHD研究没有再现太阳能离子的观察到的特性。在这项工作中，PI将通过开发冠状彩带的全面多维和多流体模型来研究太阳风的多离子动力学和组成变化，这些模型将重离子与质子和电子一起作为单独但耦合的流体融合在一起。他将通过在他的新模型中包括经验加热术语以及波加热和加速项来研究优先重离子加热和离子温度各向异性的影响。 PI将通过计算他的多流体模型输出预期的紫外线（UV）发射率来进行他的模型和可用光谱观察之间的详细比较。基于PI模型的冠状发射计算将使他能够估计使用未来的冠状动脉仪器将检测到的紫外光谱线的预期强度。这项研究将使人们更好地了解慢太阳风的组成和结构，以及影响其血浆成分的加速和加热过程。该项目将通过涉及属于代表性不足的少数群体以及培训博士后学者的研究生来促进研究和教育。该项目中开发的数值代码将通过提供大量平行的多流体模型来加强国家的计算基础架构，以供其他研究人员使用。 PI的多维，多流体数值建模代码将提供给更广泛的科学界，以进行正在进行的太阳风研究，以及存在多种离子等离子体的其他应用，例如实验室和天体物理等离子体。