Available online 31 July 2008

This paper deals with the numerical modelling of corona discharges induced by electrohydrodynamic actuators. A specific numerical method is proposed and discussed to compute the multiscale nature observed in the modelling of corona discharges. The idea consists in a domain decomposition of the computational domain where each subdomain is described with a specific modelling well adapted to the p...

let $g=(v,e)$ be a‎ ‎simple graph of order $n$ and size $m$‎. ‎an $r$-matching of $g$ is ‎a set of $r$ edges of $g$ which no two of them have common vertex‎. ‎the hosoya index $z(g)$ of a graph $g$ is defined as the total‎ ‎number of its matchings‎. ‎an independent set of $g$ is a set of‎ ‎vertices where no two vertices are adjacent‎. ‎the ‎merrifield-simmons index of $g$ is defined as the tota...

Temperature inversions occur in nature, e.g., in the solar corona and in interstellar molecular clouds: Somewhat counterintuitively, denser parts of the system are colder than dilute ones. We propose a simple and appealing way to spontaneously generate temperature inversions in systems with long-range interactions, by preparing them in inhomogeneous thermal equilibrium states and then applying ...

It is clear that the solar corona is being heated and that coronal magnetic fields undergo reconnection all the time. Here we attempt to show that these two facts are related--i.e. coronal reconnection generates heat. This attempt must address the fact that topological change of field lines does not automatically generate heat. We present one case of flux emergence where we have measured the ra...

Recently, a new universal HPLC detection technology has been developed based on charged aerosol detection that has led to the development of a universal HPLC detector, the Corona CAD. To further understand the capabilities of charged aerosol detection and the use of the technology in an HPLC detector, the Corona CAD was tested for its sensitivity, dynamic range, response from compounds of diffe...

Cool stars such as our Sun are surrounded by a million degree hot outer atmosphere, the corona. For more than 60 years, the physical nature of the processes heating the corona to temperatures well in excess of those on the stellar surface have remained puzzling. Recent progress in observational techniques and numerical modeling now opens a new window to approach this problem. We present the fir...

Measurements of the temperature and density structure of the solar corona provide critical constraints on theories of coronal heating. Unfortunately, the complexity of the solar atmosphere, observational uncertainties, and the limitations of current atomic calculations, particularly those for Fe, all conspire to make this task very difficult. A critical assessment of plasma diagnostics in the c...

We extended the disk corona model (Meyer & Meyer-Hofmeister 1994; Meyer, Liu, & MeyerHofmeister 2000a) to the inner region of galactic nuclei by including different temperatures in ions and electrons as well as Compton cooling. We found that the mass evaporation rate and hence the fraction of accretion energy released in the corona depend strongly on the rate of incoming mass flow from outer ed...

The steady-state structure of a disc with a corona is analyzed when the vertical component of the gravitational force due to the self-gravity of the disc is considered. For the energy exchange between the disc and the corona, we assume a fraction f of the dissipated energy inside the accretion disc is transported to the corona via the magnetic tubes. Analytical solutions corresponding to a pres...