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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

We study the coupling of magneto-acoustic waves to Alven waves using 2.5D numerical simulations. In our experiment, a fast magnetoacoustic wave of a given frequency and wavenumber is generated below the surface. The magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Elena Khomenko , Paul Cally

We study the conversion of fast magneto-acoustic waves to Alfven waves by means of 2.5D numerical simulations in a sunspot-like magnetic configuration. A fast, essentially acoustic, wave of a given frequency and wave number is generated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Elena Khomenko , Paul Cally

We numerically investigate the excitation and temporal evolution of oscillations in a two-dimensional coronal arcade by including the three-dimensional propagation of perturbations. The time evolution of impulsively generated perturbations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Rial , I. Arregui , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

In this paper, results of 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations are reported for the magnetic reconnection of non-perfectly antiparallel magnetic fields. The magnetic field has a component perpendicular to the computational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiromitsu Kigure , Kunio Takahashi , Kazunari Shibata , Takaaki Yokoyama , Satoshi Nozawa

The large abundance of electrically neutral particles has a remarkable impact on the dynamics of many astrophysical plasmas. Here, we use a two-fluid model that includes charge-neutral elastic collisions and Hall's current to study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 David Martínez-Gómez

We examine the role of Alfven wave damping in heating the plasma in the magnetic funnels of magnetospheric accretion models of young stars. We study four different damping mechanisms of the Alfven waves: nonlinear, turbulent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Vasconcelos , V. Jatenco-Pereira , R. Opher

Ion-neutral collisions may lead to the damping of Alfven waves in chromospheric and prominence plasmas. Neutral helium atoms enhance the damping in certain temperature interval, where the ratio of neutral helium and neutral hydrogen atoms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. L. Khodachenko , R. Soler

Alfven waves are transverse magneto-hydrodynamic waves resulting from motion of a conducting fluid in direction perpendicular to an applied magnetic field, that propagate along the magnetic field direction. I propose that Alfven-like waves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-14 J. E. Hirsch

Waves observed in the photosphere and chromosphere of sunspots show complex dynamics and spatial patterns. The interpretation of high-resolution sunspot wave observations requires modeling of three-dimensional non-linear wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Felipe , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

We study propagating Alfven waves by solving the time-dependent equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one dimension numerically. In a homogeneous medium the circularly polarized Alfven wave is an exact solution of the ideal MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Turkmani , U. Torkelsson

It is well established now that the solar atmosphere, from photosphere to the corona and the solar wind is a highly structured medium. Satellite observations have confirmed the presence of steady flows. Here, we investigate the parallel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Zhelyazkov

The interaction of a fast magnetoacoustic wave with a magnetic null point is studied in the context of the sympathetic flare phenomenon. Attention is paid to steepening the wave caused by the finite-amplitude effects in a non-uniform plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yu Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Mariana Cécere , Andrea Costa

It is often asserted or implicitly assumed, without justification, that the results of two-dimensional investigations of plasma turbulence are applicable to the three-dimensional plasma environments of interest. A projection method is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Gregory G. Howes

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

Alfven wave is the single most important physical phenomenon of magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence and has far-reaching impact to almost all studies related to astrophysical magnetic field. Yet the restoration of the Alfven wave fluctuations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Ka Ho Yuen , Huirong Yan , Alex Lazarian

In the Earth auroral zone, the electron acceleration by Alfv\'en waves is sometimes a precursor of the non-propagating acceleration structures. In order to investigate how Alfv\'en waves could generate non-propagating electric fields, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Fabrice Mottez

Alfv\'en waves are a particular class of magnetohydrodynamic waves relevant in many astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of Alfv\'en waves is affected by the interaction between ionized and neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Soler , M. Carbonell , J. L. Ballester , J. Terradas