Solar Physics Durham

We are the Solar Physics/MHD group based in the Mathematics Department at Durham University, tweeting about all things solar and/or magnetohydrodynamic!

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Our own Peter Wyper was involved in this exciting work modelling a "coupled streamer-blowout eruption"!!! Video in link

https://t.co/5K61wYrfhE

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

One lowkey reason I have found to hate the corona virus (below the obvious) is it has ruined simple google searches for my favourite region of the sun

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Featuring pretty tubes!

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

When does the magnetic helicity change, but you get no reconnection? (come back this is not a solar nerd joke!) Turns out pretty much all the time! See here for details

https://t.co/mXb7sjoFhV

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

@Pecnut

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Some (late) research advent highlights! @Pecnut 's simulations of elastic tubes (sperm's!) gihting their way through a springy network (mucus), horrific numerics done with style! (https://t.co/oRkGXObpx1)

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

@JamesWThrelfall science at its best no doubt

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

📢New paper alert, how to recognise regions of reconnective activity in turbulently reconnective plasma's with the folk at UCLA and their big plasma tube:
https://t.co/3XTtaGjXRd

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

I think I will go out and find one and tell it why it needs my helicity calculating code.....

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Though near-blind and dwelling underground, the eyes of the African Ansell's mole-rat can sense magnetic fields, according to new research in @RSocPublishing #Interface. See the full article: https://t.co/P3529dPNrh

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

It probably says something about me that I only now know how to wash my hands properly....

[chrislintott @chrislintott]

Well played ⁦⁦@OxfordPhysics⁩

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What I am up to now: Its friday, CHIPPY TEA!

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have been up to this year 6: Prantika Bhowmik @PrantikaBhowmik has been busy predicting the Solar cycle
https://t.co/sTC6GJYmsG

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have been up to this year 5: Long Chen has
looked into mean-field generation in three classes of optimal dynamos

https://t.co/e1pbpIUm27

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Coincidentally this can be used as a model to underlay the project Peter Wyper has been working on (see 3:)

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have been up to this year 4: Adam Townsend has had accepted a frankly intimidating treatise on the modelling of active filaments in fluids:
https://t.co/Mt5XGJAtZQ

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have been up to this year 3: Peter Wyper has been CO-I on project Hazel Wyper, a very demanding effort with PI Sarah, he has also done great things on sympatheic (ish) eruptions which will appear soon....

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have been up to this year 2: Chris Prior has been looking into wavelet decompositions of magnetic helicity, a better means of characterising inhomogeneity than standard Fourier methods: https://t.co/jpmfwJlr4N

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

What we have bee up to this year 1: Anthony Yeates asks how careful we should be about representing the structure of new active regions in SFT models, in short very, but he has made python code to do it properly for you!

[Living Reviews | Solar Physics @livrev_lrsp]

#EditorsChoice:
Anthony R. Yeates, "How Good Is the Bipolar Approximation of Active Regions for Surface Flux Transport?". #SolarPhysics 295, 119 (2020). https://t.co/hv5DZAioMJ #BMR #HMI #SDO #SHARP

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

@JamesWThrelfall The Durham dynamo was struggling for a while but a quick helicity spring clean got it up and running again.

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Hi all, we have been away for a while after the now Dr Tim Whitbread spread his wings. But now we will become active again........

[Solar Physics Durham @SolarDurham]

Now back to shouting at my fieldline tracer for a little while.....