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The propagation of dissipationless, hydromagnetic, non-WKB, purely toroidal Alfv\'en waves in a realistic background three-fluid solar wind with axial symmetry and differential proton-alpha flow is investigated. The wave equations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bo Li , Xing Li

MHD turbulence driven at velocities higher than the Alfv\'en velocity, i.e., super-Alfv\'enic turbulence, is widely spread in astrophysical environments, including galaxy clusters and molecular clouds. For statistical studies of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan , Y. Hu

We study the formation and evolution of a turbulent spectrum of Alfv\'en waves driven by reflection off the solar wind density gradients, starting from the coronal base up to 17 solar radii, well beyond the Alfv\'enic critical point. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 A. Verdini , M. Velli , E. Buchlin

It is widely accepted in the MHD turbulence community that the nonlinear cascade of wave energy requires counter-propagating Alfv\'enic wave-packets, along some mean magnetic field. This fact is an obvious outcome of the MHD equations under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Goossens

Mode conversion in the region where the sound and Alfven speeds are equal is a complex process, which has been studied both analytically and numerically, and has been seen in observations. In order to further the understanding of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-04 A. M. Dee McDougall , Alan W. Hood

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

Using advanced numerical magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere, including non-grey radiative transport and a non-ideal equation of state, we analyse plasma motions in photospheric magnetic vortices. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Shelyag , P. S. Cally , A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis

We describe, analyze and validate the recently developed Alfv\'en Wave Solar Model (AWSoM), a 3D global model starting from the top of the chromosphere and extending into interplanetary space (up to 1-2 AU). This model solves the extended…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-06 R. Oran , B. van der Holst , E. Landi , M. Jin , I. V. Sokolov , T. I. Gombosi

In this talk we introduce our recent results of global 1D MHD simulations for the acceleration of solar and stellar winds. We impose transverse photospheric motions corresponding to the granulations, which generate outgoing Alfven waves.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takeru K. Suzuki

The Novikov-Veselov (NV) equation is a dispersive (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation that generalizes the (1+1)-dimensional Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation. This paper considers the stability of plane wave soliton solutions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Ryan Croke , Jennifer Mueller , Andreas Stahel

Nonthermal features are ubiquitously observed in electron velocity distribution functions in the solar wind, yet their origin in the collisionless, turbulent, expanding solar-wind plasma remains unclear. We investigate how solar-wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Maximilien Péters de Bonhome , Fabio Bacchini , Luca Pezzini , Viviane Pierrard

We have performed MHD simulations of Alfven wave propagation along an open flux tube in the solar atmosphere. In our numerical model, Alfven waves are generated by the photospheric granular motion. As the wave generator, we used a derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Takuma Matsumoto , Kazunari Shibata

Context: MHD waves and magnetic null points are both prevalent in many astrophysical plasmas, including the solar atmosphere. Interaction between waves and null points has been implicated as a possible mechanism for localised heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. O. Thurgood , J. A. McLaughlin

Acoustic wave propagation in a one-dimensional waveguide connected with Helmholtz resonators is studied numerically. Finite amplitude waves and viscous boundary layers are considered. The model consists of two coupled evolution equations: a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Bruno Lombard , Jean-François Mercier

System-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves within Earth's magnetosphere are often understood theoretically using box models. While these have been highly instructive in understanding many fundamental features of the various wave modes…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 M. O. Archer , D. J. Southwood , M. D. Hartinger , L. Rastaetter , A. N. Wright

Non-uniformity plays an important role for MHD waves. For a uniform plasma of infinite extent the MHD waves can be subdivided in two classes with distinct properties. The first class contains the Alfv\'en waves. The Alfv\'en waves are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Marcel Goossens , Iñigo Arregui , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Aims. We investigate the formation of small scales and the dissipation of MHD wave energy through non-linear interactions of counter-propagating, phase-mixed Alfvenic waves in a complex magnetic field. Methods. We conducted fully 3-D,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Jack Reid

Nonlinear energy transfer and dissipation in Alfv\'en wave turbulence are analyzed in the first gyrokinetic simulation spanning all scales from the tail of the MHD range to the electron gyroradius scale. For typical solar wind parameters at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 D. Told , F. Jenko , J. M. TenBarge , G. G. Howes , G. W. Hammett

One view of the solar-wind turbulence is that the observed highly anisotropic fluctuations at spatial scales near the proton inertial length $d_p$ may be considered as Kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs). In the present paper, we show how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 C. L. Vasconez , F. Pucci , F. Valentini , S. Servidio , W. H. Matthaeus , F. Malara

A hybrid model of the Vlasov equation in multiple spatial dimension $D>1$ [H. A. Rose and W. Daughton, Physics of Plasmas v. 18, 122109 (2011)], the Vlasov multi dimensional model (VMD), consists of standard Vlasov dynamics along a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Harey A. Rose , Denis A. Silantyev , Natalia Vladimirova