Magnetic_Carpet
(Investigator: DeForest)
Stochastic magnetic carpets of small-scale corks have been used to demonstrate that the network can form from flux injected on only inobservably small scales. Such networks are a good proxy for the ubiquitous bubbling and moiling that Hinode and the SST observe. I am carrying out a suite of simulations to see how the small scale background field interacts with the overlying corona. drzowie 22:08, 4 October 2008 (MDT)
The initial simulations were called "tiny" and "reduced" (as compared to full sized corks simulations). Both used an emergence rate of 0.3 (0.3 tiny bipoles per granule, on average), a time step of 90 seconds, and a resolution of 200km. The tiny one was 20x20 Mm, the reduced one was 60x60 Mm.
The tiny simulation is too small to show the interaction of supergranulation and the granules; but it is useful to debug the larger sims and to demonstrate the base behavior.
Here are a couple of interesting sample images from the tiny run. Click on each one for the full-size version:
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| Close to initial condition | A naturally occuring knot(!) exists just right of center | A current-bearing system unwinds just above center -- is this a tornado/helical jet? |