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Heat Flux in a Non-Maxwellian Solar Coronal Plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

N.N. Ljepojevic  and
P. MacNeice
N.N. Ljepojevic
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
P. MacNeice
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 682, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

Abstract

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We determine the electron distribution function within a hot coronal loop using a hybrid numerical scheme which couples the Spitzer-Härm method at low velocities with the solution to the high velocity form of the Landau-Fokker-Planck equation. From this we calculate the heat flux throughout the loop and compare it with the classical fourier law of Spitzer and Härm(1953).

Type
Session III: Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 104 , Issue 2: Solar and Stellar Flares , 1989 , pp. 289 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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