Wave coupling and particle acceleration mechanisms in inhomogeneous plasmas of solar corona
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Salford
Department Name: Inst for Materials Research
Abstract
Growing amount of observational data from the current and future space missions that study solar corona requires creation of more advanced than presently existing models of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave interaction with realistic 2D and 3D plasma inhomogeneities, in the fully compressive, stratified, finite temperature regime as well as investigation of possible particle acceleration mechanisms which are important for plasma heating i.e. solar coronal heating problem. These issues are relevant to PPARC's remit because they are crucial for e.g. rapidly developing field of MHD coronal seismology, which is presently being actively studied by plasma physics community in the UK and overseas. Besides, more diverse than MHD, kinetic description is relatively new to the solar coronal physics. Therefore, to maintain world-leading position of UK science in this field PPARC's support is essential to continue work in this direction. Better understanding of physical processes in solar and space plasmas will ultimately enable us to predict space weather and coronal mass ejections which cause damage to space satellites and terrestrial power grids. Hence, practical and socio-economic benefits of the proposed work are significant.
People |
ORCID iD |
| David Tsiklauri (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aschwanden M
(2009)
THE HYDRODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF IMPULSIVELY HEATED CORONAL LOOPS: EXPLICIT ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Aschwanden Markus J.
(2007)
The coronal heating paradox
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Bian N
(2009)
Compressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a strong magnetic field
in Physics of Plasmas
Bian N
(2008)
Mixing of shear Alfven wave packets
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Graf Von Der Pahlen J
(2014)
The effect of guide-field and boundary conditions on collisionless magnetic reconnection in a stressed X -point collapse
in Physics of Plasmas
Pechhacker R
(2014)
Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of electron acceleration by Langmuir waves in an inhomogeneous plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Pechhacker R
(2012)
The effect of electron beam pitch angle and density gradient on solar type III radio bursts
in Physics of Plasmas
Pechhacker R
(2012)
Electron cyclotron maser emission mode coupling to the z-mode on a longitudinal density gradient in the context of solar type III bursts
in Physics of Plasmas
Schmitz H
(2013)
The effect of initial conditions on the electromagnetic radiation generation in type III solar radio bursts
in Physics of Plasmas
Smith P
(2007)
Enhanced phase mixing of Alfvén waves propagating in stratified and divergent coronal structures
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tsiklauri D
(2007)
Magnetic reconnection during collisionless, stressed, X-point collapse using particle-in-cell simulation
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2008)
Physics of collisionless reconnection in a stressed X-point collapse
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2006)
A mechanism for parallel electric field generation in the MHD limit: possible implications for the coronal heating problem in the two stage mechanism
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tsiklauri D
(2006)
Erratum: Non-Newtonian effects in the peristaltic flow of a Maxwell fluid [Phys. Rev. E 64, 036303 (2001)]
in Physical Review E
Tsiklauri D
(2011)
An alternative to the plasma emission model: Particle-in-cell, self-consistent electromagnetic wave emission simulations of solar type III radio bursts
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2011)
Heating of solar chromosphere by electromagnetic wave absorption in a plasma slab model
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2006)
A fresh look at the heating mechanisms of the solar corona
in New Journal of Physics
Tsiklauri D
(2011)
Galaxy rotation curves: the effect of $\vec{j} \times\vec{B}$ force
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Tsiklauri D
(2012)
Three dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of particle acceleration by circularly polarised inertial Alfven waves in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2007)
A minimal model of parallel electric field generation in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma
in New Journal of Physics
Tsiklauri D
(2010)
Vlasov - Maxwell, Self-consistent Electromagnetic Wave Emission Simulations in the Solar Corona
in Solar Physics
Tsiklauri D
(2008)
Physics of collisionless phase mixing
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2008)
A new fast reconnection model in a collisionless regime
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2011)
Particle acceleration by circularly and elliptically polarised dispersive Alfven waves in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma in the inertial and kinetic regimes
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri David
(2009)
Missing pieces of the solar jigsaw puzzle
in ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS
| Description | 3 year Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC ) PhD Studentship Quota Award for 2006/2007 |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2006 |
| End | 10/2007 |
| Description | CAMPUS Professorial Fellowship to host Prof. L. Ofman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2006 |
| End | 07/2006 |
| Description | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Environment Deans' Annual Research Prize 2007 |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2007 |
| End | 06/2008 |
| Description | Leverhulme Trust Research Grant |
| Amount | £158,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RPG-311, "Advanced model of solar radio bursts via plasma kinetic simulation" |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2012 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Description | Parallel Computing Resources for the UK MHD Community, 0.8% FTE |
| Amount | £967,667 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/H008799/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2009 |
| End | 10/2013 |
| Description | PhD Studentship (3 year funding), Faculty of Science internal funding |
| Amount | £59,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2006 |
| End | 10/2009 |
| Description | PhD Studentship (3-year funding) |
| Amount | £61,143 (GBP) |
| Organisation | South East Physics Network |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2010 |
| End | 06/2013 |
| Description | Research Investment Fund grant for collboration with Prof. J.I. Sakai (Toyama University, Japan) |
| Amount | £3,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2006 |
| End | 06/2007 |
| Description | consolidated grant, 10% Co-I (Tsiklauri) salary (FTE) per annum, and £ 3,000 personal travel grant |
| Amount | £1,632,102 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/J001546/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2012 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Description | LMSAL |
| Organisation | Lockheed Martin |
| Department | Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have contributed to research papers by providing relevant numerical simulations and wrote some parts of the text. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr M.J. Aschwanden from Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Center, Solar & Astrophysics Lab, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, undertook a leading role in this research collaboration. |
| Impact | This collaboration produced high profile papers: 1. M.J. Aschwanden, D. Tsiklauri, "The hydrodynamic evolution of impulsively heated coronal loops: explicit analitical approimations", The Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 185, 171 (2009) and 2. M.J. Aschwanden, A. Winebarger, Tsiklauri D., and H. Peter, "The Coronal Heating Paradox", Astrophys. J., 659, 1673-1681, (2007) |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | NASA |
| Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Department | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I contributed to research discussions that lead to a paper and also learned new numerical techniques that will be used in my STFC consolidated grant application research for 2015-2018 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. L. Ofman of NASA/GSFC published a research paper based on reserach done while visiting in 2006, on a 1 month project, Title: "Slow magnetosonic waves in solar coronal loops" funded by University of Salford's CAMPUS Professorial Fellowship |
| Impact | Ofman, L. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, A04108, doi:10.1029/2009JA015094, 2010 |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Salford |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Department | School of Computing, Science and Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I contributed to interdisciplinary research paper, based on my expertise gained in STFC remit research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr O. Umnova from School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford, took a leading role in the research project |
| Impact | This research project resulted in a high profile paper: O. Umnova, D. Tsiklauri, R. Venegas "Effect of boundary slip on the acoustical properties of microfibrous materials", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 126, Issue 4, pp. 1850-1861 (2009) |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Sheffield |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | School of Mathematics and Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I contributed to a research paper |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. M.S. Ruderman of University of Sheffield contributed to a joint research paper |
| Impact | joint paper was published with my PhD student P.D. Smith and collaborator Prof. M.S. Ruderman: 1. P.D. Smith, Tsiklauri D., M.S. Ruderman "Enhanced phase mixing of Alfven waves propagating in stratified and divergent coronal structures", Astron. Astrophys., 475, 1111-1123, (2007) |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Toyama |
| Organisation | University of Toyama |
| Department | Laboratory for Plasma Astrophysics |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I contributed to rearch discussions in a rearch project of my PhD student P.D. Smith and my Japanese colleague (Prof. J.I. Sakai) who hosted P.D. Smith for 1 year under Jananese JSPS grant |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. J.I. Sakai contrubuted to training of my PhD student P.D. Smith |
| Impact | research papers published by my PhD student P.D. Smith and Japanese collaborator Prof. J.I. Sakai: 1. Smith, P. D.; Sakai, J. I., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 486, Issue 2, pp.569-575 (2008) 2. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 687, Issue 2, pp. L127-L130 (2008) 3. Smith, P. D.; Sakai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 691, Issue 1, pp. L45-L48 (2009) |
| Start Year | 2006 |