Solar magnetism simulation. Supercomputer simulation of magnetic structures formed by a turbulent dynamo on the Sun. The blue-red colour scale corresponds to magnetic field strength of plus/minus 300 Gauss. A typical size for the magnetic structures is 100 to 300 kilometres. In the Sun,highly turbulent hot plasma flows stretch,twist,and fold magnetic field lines. This simulation is one of several Large-Eddy Simulations produced with the parallel 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic code SolarBox,using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. The simulation was featured at the SC13 supercomputing conference in November 2013 | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Ames (Irina Kitiashvili, Stanford University; Tim Sandstrom) / NASA |
Taille de l’image : | 1858 px × 1898 px |
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