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We perform one-dimensional linear analysis and numerical simulations of the propagation of Alfven waves in a force-free magnetosphere along magnetic field lines around a spinning black hole. We use the results to investigate the dynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 Shinji Koide , Sousuke Noda , Masaaki Takahashi

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are ubiquitous in space plasmas and a main component of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the heliosphere. As pump waves they are prone to parametric instability by which they can generate cyclotron and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Eckart Marsch , Daniel Verscharen

A previously published analytical magnetohydrodynamic model for the local interstellar magnetic field in the vicinity of the heliopause (R\"oken et al. 2015) is extended from incompressible to compressible, yet predominantly subsonic flow,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Kleimann , C. Röken , H. Fichtner

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particle method to study the particle acceleration from Alfv\'en,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianfu Zhang , Fuyuan Xiang

It is proved that elliptically-polarized finite-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves may not propagate in an isotropic elastic material subject to the constraint of incompressibility. The waves considered are harmonic in time and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 Michel Destrade

Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a shear flow in an initially unmagnetized plasma, unlike in the (magneto)hydrodynamics case. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We investigate conditions under which kink magnetohydrodynamic waves propagating along photospheric uniformly twisted flux tubes with axial mass flows become unstable as a consequence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We employed the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We investigate the interaction of magnetohydrodynamic waves with plasma density inhomogeneities. Our numerical study of the full MHD equations shows that: (A) Plasma density inhomogeneities are a source of non-linear generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov , T. D. Arber

We study properties of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) eigenmodes by decomposing the data of MHD simulations into linear MHD modes - namely the Alfven, slow magnetosonic, and fast magnetosonic modes. We drive turbulence with a mixture of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 K. D. Makwana , Huirong Yan

Alfv\'enic-type turbulence in strongly magnetized, low-beta pair plasmas is investigated. A coupled set of equations for the evolution of the magnetic and flow potentials are derived, covering both fluid and kinetic scales. In the fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 N. F. Loureiro , S. Boldyrev

There is a growing evidence that extended radio halos are most likely generated by electrons reaccelerated via some kind of turbulence generated in the cluster volume during major mergers. It is well known that Alfv\'en waves channel most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Gianfranco Brunetti , Pasquale Blasi , Rossella Cassano , Stefano Gabici

Recent critical remarks, published in "Annalen der Physik", about the present author's analysis of electron and ion holes and their stability are addressed and shown to be misunderstandings and misrepresentations.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 I H Hutchinson

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. Alfven waves and magneto-sonic waves are particular classes of MHD waves. These wave modes are clearly different and have pure properties in uniform plasmas of infinite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Goossens , J. Andries , R. Soler , T. Van Doorsselaere , I. Arregui , J. Terradas

Dynamics of linear perturbations in a differentially rotating accretion disk with non-homogeneous vertical structure is investigated. It has been found that turbulent viscosity results in instability of both pinching oscillations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov

We report analysis of sub-Alfv\'enic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbations in the low-\b{eta} radial-field solar wind using the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft data from 31 October to 12 November 2018. We calculate wave vectors using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 S. Q. Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Mijie Shi

The temporal property of the compressible magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence remains a fundamental unsolved question. Recent studies based on the spatial-temporal analysis in the global frame of reference suggest that the majority of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ka Ho Yuen , Hui Li , Huirong Yan

We re-examine the nature of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor of mean field electrodynamics and show that an inconsistency arises if it is calculated via consideration of time-independent magnetic fields. Specifically, the predicted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 David W. Hughes , Michael R. E. Proctor

Aims. We investigate the transfer of energy between a standing kink mode and azimuthal Alfven waves within an expanding flux tube. We consider the process of resonant absorption in a loop with a non-uniform Alfven frequency profile but in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Andrew Wright

We consider a dusty plasma, in which the dust particles have a magnetic dipole moment. A Hall-MHD type of model, generalized to account for the intrinsic magnetization, is derived. The model is shown to be energy conserving, and the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-26 Jens Zamanian , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund

This paper explores plasma wave modes using the extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) model, incorporating Hall drift and electron inertia effects. We utilize the geometric optics ansatz to study perturbed quantities, with a focus on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Noura E. Shorba , Abeer A. Mahmoud , Hamdi M. Abdelhamid