ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016
Back-reaction Of Solar plaSma to WAVES
The solar coronal heating problem is a long-standing astrophysical problem. The slow DC (reconnection) heating models are well developed in detailed 3D numerical simulations. The fast AC (wave) heating mechanisms have traditionally been neglected since there were no wave observations. Since 2007, we know that the solar atmosphere is filled with transverse waves, but still we have no adequate models (except for my own 1D analytical models) for their dissipation and plasma heating by these waves. We urgently need to know the contribution of these waves to the coronal heating problem. In BOSS-WAVES, I will innovate the AC wave heating models by utilising novel 3D numerical simulations of…
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