Modeling a coronal loop heated by magnetohydrodynamic turbulence nanoflares

We model the hydrodynamic evolution of the plasma confined in a coronal loop, 30,000 km long, subject to theheating of nanoflares due to intermittent magnetic dissipative events in the MHD turbulence produced by loopfootpoint motions. We use the time-dependent distribution of energy dissipation along the loop obtained from ahybrid shell model, occurring for a magnetic field of about 10 G in the corona; the relevant heating per unit volumealong the loop is used in the Palermo-Harvard loop plasma hydrodynamic model.We describe the results, focusing onthe effects produced by the most intense heat pulses, which lead to loop temperatures between 1 and 1.5 MK.