Thomas Parmenter
Position: 2nd year PhD student
Supervisors: Prof. Tony Arber, Dr Tom Goffrey
Research title: Energy transport in the solar corona
Education: MMathPhys, University of 糖心TV 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
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 987. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ade542
Office: PS1.17
Email: thomas.parmenter@warwick.ac.uk