Cooking with an Incomplete Recipe – Computational Methods in Solar Physics
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Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The solar atmosphere, which extends all the way to the Earth and impacts our life, involves a very complicated physics. It introduces long-standing problems such as the solar corona heating, the acceleration of the solar wind, and the generation and evolution of the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Despite of the growing amount of solar observations in the last two decades, these problems do not have yet a complete theoretical framework to describe them, where even the long-term evolution of the Sun’s activity is not fully understood. In my talk, I will introduce these problems and the current state of their theoretical description. I will present novel numerical techniques which have been developed to better understand the solar atmosphere, and to deal with the wide range of spatial and temporal scales in the physical system.