Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
A magnetohydrodynamic simulation in a 2.5D approximation is performed for the quadrupole source model for arcade flares treated years ago by Uchida (1980), and recently supported by the observations from Yohkoh. It is shown that this model can explain several key characteristic features of arcade flares found by Yohkoh, and can avoid some of the paradoxes existing in the “classical model”.