Self-organization processes on the sun - The heliosynergetics

Abstract

A study by Levich and Tzvetkov (1985) is used to construct a model of solar granulation in its entirety. Solar granulation on all scales and the formation and evolution of some structures in active solar regions are interpreted to be the result of self-organization processes occurring in a turbulent medium. A Schroedinger-type equation that gives a full spectrum of discrete structures depending on the available free energy is used to search for sources of solar flares. A magnetoactive medium possessing helicity is found to submit itself to the formation of solitons which themselves could be the organized state of a nonlinear medium describable by a KDV equation. A gas composed of many solitons could get further organized into one big soliton which could carry enough energy for a big flare.