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We examine the temperature structure of static coronal active region loops in regimes where thermal conductive transport is driven by Coulomb collisions, by turbulent scattering, or by a combination of the two. (In the last case collisional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Gordon Emslie , Stephen J. Bradshaw

The Parker hypothesis (Parker (1972)) assumes that heating of coronal loops occurs due to reconnection, induced when photospheric motions braid field lines to the point of current sheet formation. In this contribution we address the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 M. L. Ritchie , A. L. Wilmot-Smith , G. Hornig

Long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry are carried out, within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), to understand coronal heating driven by motion of field lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi , R. B. Dahlburg

Coronal loops trace out bipolar, arch-like magnetic fields above the Sun's surface. Recent measurements that combine rotational tomography, extreme ultraviolet imaging, and potential-field extrapolation have shown the existence of large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Avery J. Schiff , Steven R. Cranmer

In the quest to solve the long-standing coronal heating problem, it has been suggested half a century ago that coronal loops could be heated by waves. Despite the accumulating observational evidence of the possible importance of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas , Bo Li , Patrick Antolin

In the past few years observations by high-resolution space imaging telescopes and spectrometers have confirmed that a great variety of MHD waves are supported in the solar corona of a low-beta plasma and fine structure. MHD waves are an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tongjiang Wang

The presence and interplay of continuous cooling and heating processes maintaining the corona of the Sun at the observed one million K temperature were recently understood to have crucial effects on the dynamics and stability of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 D. Y. Kolotkov , D. I. Zavershinskii , V. M. Nakariakov

Employing high-resolution EUV imaging observations from SDO/AIA, we analyse a compressive plasma oscillation in a hot coronal loop triggered by a C-class flare near one of its foot points as first studied by Kumar et al. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Krishna Prasad , T. Van Doorsselaere

This study investigates the dispersion of magnetohydrodynamic waves influenced by thermal misbalance in a cylindrical configuration with a finite axial magnetic field within solar coronal plasmas. Specifically, it examines how thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 S. M. Hejazi , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Sadeghi , D. Y. Kolotkov , J. Hermans

Alfv\'enic waves have been proposed as an important energy transport mechanism in coronal loops, capable of delivering energy to both the corona and chromosphere and giving rise to many observed features, of flaring and quiescent regions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jeffrey W. Reep , Alexander J. B. Russell , Lucas A. Tarr , James E. Leake

Slow magnetosonic waves associated with flares were observed in coronal loops by SOHO/SUMER, SDO/AIA in various EUV bandpasses, and other instruments. The excitation and damping of slow magnetosonic waves provides information on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Building upon our first paper [Hu, K.X, & Hu, Y. J. (2025). Hydroacoustic Absorption and Amplification by Turbulence, arXiv:2512.07920], the present work conducts a more in-depth investigation into the impact of turbulence on hydroacoustic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-04 Kai-Xin Hu , Yue-Jin Hu

An expansion of cross-sectional area directly impacts the mass flow along a coronal loop, and significantly alters the radiative and hydrodynamic evolution of that loop as a result. Previous studies have found that an area expansion from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Jeffrey W. Reep , Roger B. Scott , Sherry Chhabra , John Unverferth , Kalman J. Knizhnik

In this work we address theoretically a key issue concerning microwave-induced longitudinal resistivity oscillations and zero resistance states, as is tempoerature. In order to explain the strong temperature dependence of the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Iñarrea , G. Platero

Standing slow mode waves in hot flaring loops are exclusively observed in spectrometers and are used to diagnose the magnetic field strength and temperature of the loop structure. Due to the lack of spatial information, the longitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , D. Banerjee , P. Antolin

Observations show the ubiquitous presence of propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in the solar atmosphere. Waves and flows are often observed simultaneously. Due to plasma inhomogeneity in the perpendicular direction to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Marcel Goossens

The wall cooling effect on the spectra and structures of thermodynamic variables are investigated in hypersonic turbulent boundary layers. The density and temperature can be divided into the acoustic and entropic modes based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-19 Dehao Xu , Jianchun Wang , Shiyi Chen

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

We investigate the propagation of MHD fast waves into a cylindrical coronal loop through an inhomogeneous stationary flow region. The background flow is assumed to have a small, spatially periodic structure in addition to a constant speed.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-05 D. J. Yu

Slow magnetoacoustic oscillations in stellar coronal loops with gravitational stratification are analyzed with a numerical solution of the boundary-value problem for eigenvalues and eigen functions. In this study, we only focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Daye Lim , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yong-Jae Moon