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Main Authors: Wu, Chin-Chun, Liou, Kan, Wood, Brian, Hayashi, Keiji
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13090
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author Wu, Chin-Chun
Liou, Kan
Wood, Brian
Hayashi, Keiji
author_facet Wu, Chin-Chun
Liou, Kan
Wood, Brian
Hayashi, Keiji
contents Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their driven shocks are a major source of large geomagnetic storms due to their large and long-lasting, southward component of magnetic field in the sheath and the flux rope (e.g., magnetic cloud). Predicting the strength and arrival time of southward fields accurately thus plays a key role in space weather predictions. To address this problem, we have developed a new model, which combines the global three-dimensional, time-dependent, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), data-driven model (G3DMHD) and a self-contained magnetic flux-rope model [1]. As a demonstration and validation, here we simulate the evolution of a Sun-Earth-directed CME that erupted on 2012-July-12. The computational domain spans from 2.5 solar radii (Rs) from the surface of the Sun, where the flux rope is injected, to 245 Rs. We compare the time profiles of the simulated MHD parameters (Density, velocity, temperature, and magnetic field) with in situ solar wind observations acquired at ~1 AU by the Wind spacecraft and the result is encouraging. The model successfully reproduces the shock, sheath, and flux rope similar to those observed by Wind.
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spellingShingle Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the 2012-July-12 CME Event With the Fluxrope-G3DMHD Model
Wu, Chin-Chun
Liou, Kan
Wood, Brian
Hayashi, Keiji
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space Physics
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their driven shocks are a major source of large geomagnetic storms due to their large and long-lasting, southward component of magnetic field in the sheath and the flux rope (e.g., magnetic cloud). Predicting the strength and arrival time of southward fields accurately thus plays a key role in space weather predictions. To address this problem, we have developed a new model, which combines the global three-dimensional, time-dependent, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), data-driven model (G3DMHD) and a self-contained magnetic flux-rope model [1]. As a demonstration and validation, here we simulate the evolution of a Sun-Earth-directed CME that erupted on 2012-July-12. The computational domain spans from 2.5 solar radii (Rs) from the surface of the Sun, where the flux rope is injected, to 245 Rs. We compare the time profiles of the simulated MHD parameters (Density, velocity, temperature, and magnetic field) with in situ solar wind observations acquired at ~1 AU by the Wind spacecraft and the result is encouraging. The model successfully reproduces the shock, sheath, and flux rope similar to those observed by Wind.
title Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the 2012-July-12 CME Event With the Fluxrope-G3DMHD Model
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13090