Projects
Solar wind modeling: global MHD to kinetic treatments. KU Leuven
In the present work we use analytical and computational methods in order to examine different dynamical scales in the solar atmosphere and the solar wind.
The latter represents the expansion of the atmosphere to large radial distances, further than the Earth's orbit.
After the introduction presented in chapter 1, we start our analysis with investigating and presenting potential force-free field extrapolations based on observational ...
Novel two-fluid modelling of chromospheric heating and magnetic reconnection phenomena. KU Leuven
Investigating chromospheric evaporation using multidimensional flare simulations. KU Leuven
Dynamics and energetics of coronal loops undergoing decayless oscillations KU Leuven
The Sun, as the nearest star to Earth, has been extensively studied ever since the development of modern Astrophysics. The large number of multi-frequency observations has shed light on many of the phenomena existing in the solar interior and the solar atmosphere, but not without generating a whole range of questions regarding the nature of these processes.
The solar atmosphere is not an assembly of static, clearly defined layers, but ...
Extreme energy transformations and transfers in astrophysical and laboraasmas KU Leuven
The transport and conversion of vast amounts of energies in different forms is the key aspect of almost all major events in laboratory plasma experiments, in our solar system and in more remote astrophysical systems. Nevertheless, energy transfer and transformation mechanisms in plasmas are still riddled with many fundamental challenges due to their intrinsic multi-scale and multi-faceted nature. Multi-scale aspects come in when trying to ...