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:
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
For any question or comments
please click here to mail me a
message
last updated on March 17, 2000