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We perform magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the propagation of Alfven wave in magnetic chromosphere. We use the 1.5-dimensional expanding flux tube geometry setting and transverse perturbation at the bottom to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama

A ray-theoretic phase space description of linear waves in a two-fluid (charges and neutrals) magnetized plasma is used to calculate analytic decay rates and mode transmission and conversion coefficients between fast and slow waves in two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Paul S Cally , M. M. Gomez-Miguez

Wave propagation in a stratified fluid / porous medium is studied here using analytical and numerical methods. The semi-analytical method is based on an exact stiffness matrix method coupled with a matrix conditioning procedure, preventing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Gaëlle Lefeuve-Mesgouez , Arnaud Mesgouez , Guillaume Chiavassa , Bruno Lombard

We study the coupling of magneto-acoustic waves to Alven waves using 2.5D numerical simulations. In our experiment, a fast magnetoacoustic wave of a given frequency and wavenumber is generated below the surface. The magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Elena Khomenko , Paul Cally

Alfv\'en waves may be difficult to excite at the photosphere due to low ionization fraction and suffer near-total reflection at the transition region (TR). Yet they are ubiquitous in the corona and heliosphere. To overcome these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shelley C. Hansen , Paul S. Cally

The nature of MHD waves within inhomogeneous media is fundamental to understanding and interpreting wave behavior in the solar atmosphere. We investigate fast magnetoacoustic wave behavior within gravitationally stratified, magnetically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryan T. Smith , James A. McLaughlin , Gert J. J. Botha

We perform nonlinear MHD simulations to study the propagation of magnetoacoustic waves from the photosphere to the low corona. We focus on a 2D system with a gravitationally stratified atmosphere and three photospheric concentrations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Lucas A. Tarr , Mark Linton , James Leake

A simplified non-linear numerical model for the development of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the presence of a strong magnetic field B0 and stratification, nicknamed Shell-Atm, is presented. In planes orthogonal to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Buchlin , M. Velli

The solar atmosphere may be heated by Alfven waves that propagate up from the convection zone and dissipate their energy in the chromosphere and corona. To further test this theory, we consider wave heating in an active region observed on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Asgari-Targhi , A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

Identifying the heating mechanisms of the solar corona and the driving mechanisms of solar wind are key challenges in understanding solar physics. A full three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation was conducted to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Takuma Matsumoto

MHD wave propagation inside the Sun's atmosphere is closely related to the magnetic field topology. For example, magnetic fields are able to lower the cutoff frequency for acoustic waves thus allowing waves which would otherwise be trapped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Stangalini , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , S. M. Jefferies

Planar acoustically dominated magneto\-hydro\-dynamic waves are initiated at the high-$\beta$ base of a simulated 2D isothermal stratified atmosphere with potential magnetic field exhibiting both open and closed field regions as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Jamon D. Pennicott , Paul S. Cally

We numerically investigate the excitation and temporal evolution of oscillations in a two-dimensional coronal arcade by including the three-dimensional propagation of perturbations. The time evolution of impulsively generated perturbations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Rial , I. Arregui , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Observations show that propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. The technique of MHD seismology uses the wave observations combined with MHD wave theory to indirectly infer physical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Goossens , R. Soler , I. Arregui , J. Terradas

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are candidates for heating the solar chromosphere, although it is still unclear which mode of the wave is dominant in heating. We perform two-dimensional radiative MHD simulation to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima

We present a comprehensive review of MHD wave behaviour in the neighbourhood of coronal null points: locations where the magnetic field, and hence the local Alfven speed, is zero. The behaviour of all three MHD wave modes, i.e. the Alfven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood , I. De Moortel

The aim of this work is to study the energy transport by means of MHD waves propagating in quiet Sun magnetic topology from layers below the surface to the corona. Upward propagating waves find obstacles, such as the equipartition layer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Irantzu C. Santamaria , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados

In the context of coronal heating, among the zoo of MHD waves that exist in the solar atmosphere, Alfven waves receive special attention. Indeed, these waves constitute an attractive heating agent due to their ability to carry over the many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 P. Antolin , K. Shibata

Phase-mixing of Alfv\'en waves in the solar corona has been identified as one possible candidate to explain coronal heating. While this scenario is supported by observations of ubiquitous oscillations in the corona carrying sufficient wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel

We use the exact solutions for magnetoacoustic waves in a two dimensional isothermal atmosphere with uniform inclined magnetic field to calculate the wave reflection, transmission, and conversion of slow and fast waves incident from above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Shelley Hansen , Paul Cally , Alina Donea