CISM

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Solar/Interplanetary Models
CMEs in solar wind

Most recently, a simulated coronaltransient in the form of an erupting flux rope (in the SAIC MHD coronal model) was coupled to a solar wind model (from Odstrcil et al. 2002a) to produce a full Sun-to-L1 simulation of a CME-like event. The picture at the upper left links to a movie of the 2D version. In the picture on the lower left, adaptive mesh refinement has been introduced in a 2D simulation of interacting interplanetary flux ropes (from Odstrcil et al. 2002b), simulating what is sometimes called a "cannibalistic" CME event.

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