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In giant molecular clouds (GMCs), shocks driven by converging turbulent flows create high-density, strongly-magnetized regions that are locally sheetlike. In previous work, we showed that within these layers, dense filaments and embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

We aim to identify the physical processes which occur in the magnetic network of the chromosphere and which contribute to its dynamics and heating. Specifically, we study the propagation of transverse (kink) MHD waves which are impulsively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Hasan , P. Ulmschneider

Chorus-like whistler-mode waves that are known to play a fundamental role in driving radiation-belt dynamics are excited on the Large Plasma Device by the injection of a helical electron beam into a cold plasma. The mode structure of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Xin An , Bart Van Compernolle , Jacob Bortnik , Richard M. Thorne , Lunjin Chen , Wen Li

When a circular symmetric piston suddenly expands into a still gas, a leading shock wave is generated. This paper investigates an inverse problem of reconstructing the trajectory of the piston from the given leading shock front and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Dian Hu , Qianfeng Li , Yongqian Zhang

A robust approach to excitation and control of large amplitude standing magnetization waves in an easy axis ferromagnetic by starting from a ground state and passage through resonances with chirped frequency microwave or spin torque drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 L. Friedland , A. G. Shagalov

We investigate possibilities of solar coronal heating by acoustic waves generated not at the photosphere but in the corona, aiming at heating in the mid- to low-latitude corona where the low-speed wind is expected to come from. Acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takeru Ken Suzuki

Observations of coronal waves (CWs) interacting with coronal holes (CHs) show the formation of typical wave-like features, such as reflected, refracted and transmitted waves (collectively, secondary waves). In accordance with these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 I. Piantschitsch , J. Terradas

This work aims to understand the behavior of non-linear waves in the vicinity of a coronal null point. In previous works we have showed that high frequency waves are generated in such magnetic configuration. This paper studies those waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 I. C. Santamaria , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , A. de Vicente

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

We analyze the evolution of shock waves in high-resolution 3D radiative MHD simulations of the quiet Sun and their synthetic emission characteristics. The simulations model the dynamics of a 12.8x12.8x15.2 Mm quiet-Sun region (including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Alan A. Wray

Whistler mode wave is a fundamental perturbation of electromagnetic fields and plasmas in various environments including planetary space, laboratory and astrophysics. The origin and evolution of the waves are a long-standing question due to…

Shocks in granular media have been shown to develop instabilities. We address the role that early stages of shock development have on this type of instability. We look at the evolution of shock waves driven by a piston in a dilute system of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Nick Sirmas , Matei Radulescu

We report the results of 1D particle-in-cell simulations of ultrarelativistic shock waves in proton-electron-positron plasmas. We consider magnetized shock waves, in which the upstream medium carries a large scale magnetic field, directed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Amato , Jonathan Arons

Observations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in the structured solar atmosphere have shown that these waves are damped and can thus contribute to atmospheric heating. In this paper, we focus on the damping mechanism of resonant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Marcel Goossens , Shao-Xia Chen , Michaël Geeraerts , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The condition of linear instability for a converging cylindrical strong shock wave (SW) in an arbitrary viscous medium is obtained in the limit of a large stationary SW radius, when it is possible to consider the same Rankine-Hugoniot jump…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-03 Sergey G. Chefranov

Quiescent filaments are usually affected by internal and/or external perturbations triggering oscillations of different kinds. In particular, external large-scale coronal waves can perturb remote quiescent filaments leading to…

The acceleration of charged particles is relevant to the solar corona over a broad range of scales and energies. High-energy particles are usually detected in concomitance with large energy release events like solar eruptions and flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 S. Dalena , A. F. Rappazzo , P. Dmitruk , A. Greco , W. H. Matthaeus

The interaction between planar shock waves and droplets, involved the evolution of high transient unsteady wave structures and the induced cavitation process, occurs widely in nature and industry. In this paper, a combination of theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Sheng Xu , Wenqi Fan , Wangxia Wu , Wei Wang , Bing Wang

The theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in solar coronal slabs in a zero-$\beta$ configuration and for parallel propagation of waves does not allow the existence of surface waves. When oblique propagation of perturbations is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Arregui , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Fast magnetosonic waves are one of the two low-frequency plasma modes that can exist in a neutron star magnetosphere. It was recently realized that these waves may become nonlinear within the magnetosphere and steepen into some of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-08 Dominic Bernardi , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Y. Chen