Manolis K. Georgoulis

Ph. D. Student

Tel: +30 31 99 8044, Fax: +30 31 99 5384, e-mail: georgoul@astro.auth.gr

Research Interests


  • Self - Organized Criticality (SOC) embedded in 2D and 3D Cellular Automata (CA) Models
  • Modeling Flaring and Subflaring Activity in Solar Active Regions through Cellular Automata Models - Complexity and Fragmentation of Energy Release in Solar Active Regions
  • The Statistical Proximity between SOC/CA Models and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Turbulence in the Solar Corona - Scale Invariance and Scaling Laws
  • Implications of Statistical Solar Flare Models with Coronal Heating - Statistical Heating due to Subflaring Activity in Solar Coronal Loops
  • Straightforward Statistical Comparison between Solar Hard X-Ray Bursts, Type I Bursts and EUV Bright Points
  • The Degree of Discretization of the MHD Equations to meet the simplified rules of CA Models in the Solar Corona

    Future Plans

    In the context of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the topics of my interest are the following:
    1. The link of simplified Cellular Automata rules with MHD Equations. This goal will be in favor of the emergence of a refined modeling that will reconcile the flavor of MHD with statistical models and upgrade statistics as a complementary tool for understanding the energy release process in the solar corona
    2. An extensive statistical comparison between satellite data and statistical models. The amount of information gathered by satellite-based observations concerning the solar coronal evolution offers unique opportunities of investigating many aspects of the behaviour of the real system, yet untouched.
    3. A possible widening of applications of self-organization and fractal behaviour in other complex astrophysical systems. Timeseries analysis as well as fractality in space and time provides nowadays new grounds for research in topics like space-weather forecasting and magnetospheric applications.


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    last updated on March 17, 2000