Density Gradient and Velocities

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Flux Emerging Through a Model Solar Atmosphere: Density Gradient and Velocities

This animation is one of a series depicting the results of a two-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulation of magnetic flux emerging through a solar atmosphere. The simulation has a resolution of 300x500 cells and a length scale of 16 Mm x 6.8 Mm. The simulation depicts 1730 seconds in the evolution of the model.

A animation of the evolution of the density gradient and velocities in the solar atmosphere model. The three velocities shown are the velocity normalized to the fast magnetosonic speed and the velocities parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. Mach number contours are shown in green.

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    115

  • Video ID

    SVS1996-0011

  • Start Timecode

    0:05:12:00

  • End Timecode

    0:06:15:00

  • Animator

    Liam Krauss, Andy Acuna

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1996/12/12

  • Scientist

    M. L. Rilee (NASA/GSFC), Dan Spicer (NASA/GSFC), R. Sudan (Cornell University)

  • Keywords

    Sun

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    None

  • Animation Type

    Regular