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Self-Similarity in Classical Fluids and MHD
B.C. LowHigh Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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1-D Thermal Pulse
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Reduction from pde to ode
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Spherically-Symmetric Flows
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Sedov-Taylor Point Explosion
• Initial state:
• Similarity variable:
• The solution:
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A Realistic “Point” Explosion
• Energy released:
• Fireball radius:
• Warm medium:
• Length scales:
• Time scales:
• Similarity regime:
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Intermediate AsymptoticsBarenblatt & Zel’dovich (1972, Ann.Rev. Fluid Mech. 4, 285)
• Self-similar solutions are the intermediate asymptotic forms of a solution in a local space time region away from boundaries and its initial state.
• Self-similar solutions often turn out to be the “preferred” end state of a diversity of possible evolutions originating from very different initial states.
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CME Kinetic Properties
• Typical CME mass ~
• Median Speed ~
• Range ~
• G-escape Speed ~
• Coronal Sound Speed ~
• Coronal Alfven Speed ~
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Time-Dependent Ideal MHD
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B
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Darnell & Burkepile 2002
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Homologous Expansion
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Time-Dependent Ideal MHD
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)Bv(t
B
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ρ
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Homologous Radial Flow: Zero-Force Flow
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Homologous Radial Flow: Mass Conservation
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A Simple Class of Self-Similar MHD Solutions
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A More Sophisticated Class of Self-Similar MHD Solutions
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A Non-Galilean Transformation
• A non-Galiliean transformation introduces inertial forces, e.g., the Coriolis force in a uniformly rotating frame of reference.
• The similarity space
introduces a pure radial force of magnitude
- the net force driving the flow.
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Stability Problems in Similarity Space
• With no loss of generality:
• Time-dependent linear perturbations about a static state in space – a classic stability problem.
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A More Sophisticated Class of Self-Similar MHD Solutions
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Velocity vs Distance
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A More Sophisticated Class of Self-Similar MHD Solutions
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Squeezing a 3D Solution out of a 2D Solution
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Unsqueezed Solution
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Squeezed Solution
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A Theoretical 3-Part CME
Gibson & Low (1998, 2000)
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Summary
• Similarity solutions as long-time end-states.• Compatible scaling laws of the thermal
energy of a polytropic gas of 4/3 index with gravitational and magnetic energy.
• Observed broad range of CME speeds.• The 3-part structure of CMEs has its origin
in the initial state.• Do similarity flows occur in CMEs?
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Movies from Gibson & Low
• Frot~1 shows a time sequence of the magnetic field of the CME making its way out surrounded by the global open magnetic field of the corona.
• Sigmoid shows the 3 D magnetic field of the CME from different perspective.
• Pb3 shows a time sequence of the CME in simulated Thomson-scattered light.