Daniel Bruder's Solar Physics REU Home Page


   Research Project: Numerical modeling of coronal magnetic fields. (description at REU projects page)
   Mentor: Charles Kankleborg. (his website)
   E-mail: bruderda@msu.edu
   About Dan Bruder




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Research:
I work with the fluxon model, as manifested by FLUX code. The fluxon model simulates coronal magnetic fields by using discrete magnetic field lines and the appopriate forces of "force-free" magnetic fields. So far I've setup initial conditions for the model and tried to analyze how FLUX treats these systems. One intial condition I setup was the Low-Lou solution, which is an analytic force-free solution that we've used to compare with the model.

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