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General phenomenological theory of hydrodynamic waves in regions with smooth loss of convexity of isentropes is developed based on the fact that for most media these regions in p-V plane are anomalously small. Accordingly the waves are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael I. Tribelsky , Sergei I. Anisimov

We present a kinetic stability analysis of the solar wind electron distribution function consisting of the Maxwellian core and the magnetic-field aligned strahl, a superthermal electron beam propagating away from the sun. We use an electron…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jack M. Schroeder , Stanislav Boldyrev , Patrick Astfalk

The shear shallow water model provides an approximation for shallow water flows by including the effect of vertical shear in the model. This model can be derived from the depth averaging process by including the second order velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Praveen Chandrashekar , Boniface Nkonga , Asha Kumari Meena , Ashish Bhole

In case of the heat flow on the free loop space of a closed Riemannian manifold non-triviality of Morse homology for semi-flows is established by constructing a natural isomorphism to singular homology of the loop space. The construction is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Joa Weber

Magnetohydrodynamic waves are important for diagnosing the physical parameters of coronal plasmas. Field-aligned flows appear frequently in coronal loops.We examine the effects of transverse density and plasma flow structuring on standing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Bo Li , Shao-Xia Chen , Li-Dong Xia , Hui Yu

In-situ measurements by several spacecraft have revealed that the solar wind is frequently perturbed by transient structures (magnetic folds, jets, waves, flux-ropes) that propagate rapidly away from the Sun over large distances. Parker…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 R. F. Pinto , N. Poirier , A. P. Rouillard , A. Kouloumvakos , L. Griton , N. Fargette , R. Kieokaew , B. Lavraud , A. S. Brun

Slow magnetoacoustic waves in a static background provide a seismological tool to probe the solar atmosphere in the analytic frame. By analyzing the spatiotemporal variation of the electron number density of plume structure in coronal holes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Il-Hyun Cho , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yong-Jae Moon , Jin-Yi Lee , Dae Jung Yu , Kyung-Suk Cho , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Harim Lee

The formation of shocks within the solar atmosphere remains one of the few observable signatures of energy dissipation arising from the plethora of magnetohydrodynamic waves generated close to the solar surface. Active region observations…

By reduction to a generalized Sturm Liouville problem, we establish spectral stability of hydraulic shock profiles of the Saint-Venant equations for inclined shallow-water flow, over the full parameter range of their existence, for both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Alim Sukhtayev , Zhao Yang , Kevin Zumbrun

We study the properties and geoeffectiveness of solar wind high-speed streams (HSSs) emanating from coronal holes and associated with stream interaction regions (SIRs). This paper presents a statistical study of 588 SIR/HSS events with…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Maxime Grandin , Anita T. Aikio , Alexander Kozlovsky

Slow magnetoacoustic waves (SMAWs) have been considered in the past as a possible candidate for chromospheric heating. This study analyzes 20 active regions observed between 2012 and 2016 to examine the amplitude and energy flux variation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , P. S. Rawat

Self-similar shock solutions in spherically symmetric polytropic gas flows are constructed and analyzed in contexts of proto-star formation processes. Among other possible solutions, we model a similarity shock across the sonic critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu-Qing Lou , Yang Gao

A model interpreting variations of EUV brightness upward propagating in solar coronal loops as slow magnetoacoustic waves is developed. A loop is considered to have a non-zero plane inclination angle and offset of circular loop centre from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov

This paper concerns the dynamic stability of the steady 3-D wave structure of a planar normal shock front intersecting perpendicularly to a planar solid wall for unsteady potential flows. The stability problem can be formulated as a free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Beixiang Fang , Feimin Huang , Wei Xiang , Feng Xiao

A stability wind shear term of logarithmic wind profile based on the terms of turbulent kinetic energy equation is proposed. The fraction influenced by thermal stratification is considered in the shear production term. This thermally…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Yoshiaki Sakagami , Pedro A. A. Santos , Reinaldo Haas , Julio C. Passos , Frederico F. Taves

We search for persistent and quasi-periodic release events of streamer blobs during 2007 with the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph on the \textit{Solar and Heliospheric Observatory} and assess the velocity of the slow solar wind along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Q. Song , Y. Chen , K. Liu , S. W. Feng , L. D. Xia

Two solar type II radio bursts, separated by ~24 hours in time, are examined together. Both events are associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupting from the same active region (NOAA 11176) beneath a well-observed helmet streamer.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen , Fan Guo , Shiwei Feng , Bing Wang , Guohui Du , Gang Li

Strong waves can mediate a shock transition between a pulsar wind and its surroundings, playing the role of an extended precursor, in which the energy is effectively transferred from fields to non-thermal particles. The damping of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Iwona Mochol , John G. Kirk

A shock tube problem is solved numerically by using one-dimensional full particle-in-cell simulations under the condition that a relatively tenuous and weakly magnetized plasma is continuously pushed by a relatively dense and strongly…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 S. Matsukiyo , T. Noumi , G. P. Zank , H. Washimi , T. Hada

The discovery of extended, approximately spherical weak shock waves in the hot intercluster gas in Perseus and Virgo has precipitated the notion that these waves may be the primary heating process that explains why so little gas cools to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. G. Mathews , A. Faltenbacher , F. Brighenti