PLASMA PROCESSES IN SOLAR-FLARES

A rationale is presented for a conception that appearance of flares in active regions is due to the interaction of large-scale convective elements. Such an interaction gives rise to shear motions in the vicinity of the inverse polarity line of the photospheric magnetic field which generate vortical motions leading to non-equilibrium state of the magnetic configuration. Modern concepts of manifestations of turbulent plasma processes are described in terms of theoretical models for solar flares. Plasma effects arising at propagation of electron beams and thermal fluxes in the solar atmosphere are considered. Their role in the interpretation of hard X-ray and type III radio bursts is pointed out. The role of the turbulent Stark effect for diagnostics of collective plasma processes in solar flares is emphasized.