天美传媒

Position: 3rd year PhD student

Supervisors: Prof. Tony Arber, Dr Tom Goffrey

Research title: Energy transport in the solar corona

Education: MMathPhys, 天美传媒 2020-24

Research Overview

Due to the large temperature gradients and low electron densities found within the sun's atmosphere, particularly during solar flares, there are insufficient collisions for classical thermal conduction to apply. Under such conditions, the heat flux becomes non-local and is limited by the low collisionality.

The current best, in terms of accuracy and efficiency, model to treat non-local heat transport is the which has been used in many laser plasma codes. By implementing the SNB model into the solar MHD codes, it is hoped to produce improved simulation and modelling of solar flares.

Publications

Parmenter, T., Arber, T., Belov S., Goffrey, T (2026). The Role of Nonlocal Thermal Transport in Flare-driven Chromospheric Evaporation, The Astrophysical Journal 1011 (66).

Belov, S., Parmenter, T., Arber, T., Kolotkov, D., Reale, F., and Goffrey, T (2025). Thermodynamic Evolution of Flaring Loops with Nonlocal Thermal Transport, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 987 (L9).