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Partially-ionized plasmas consist of charged and neutral particles whose mutual collisions modify magnetic reconnection compared with the fully-ionized case. The collisions alter the rate and locations of the magnetic dissipation heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Fulvia Pucci , Alkendra Singh , Uma Gorti , Marco Velli , Neal Turner , Disha Varshney , Maria Elena Innocenti

We present a new insight into the propagation, attenuation and dissipation of two-fluid, torsional Alfv\'en waves in the context of heating of the lower solar atmosphere. By means of numerical simulations of the partially-ionized plasma, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 B. Kuźma , K. Murawski , S. Poedts

There is evidence for coronal plasma flows to break down into fragments and to be laminar. We investigate this effect by modeling flows confined along magnetic channels. We consider a full MHD model of a solar atmosphere box with a dipole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. Petralia , F. Reale , P. Testa

Microcavity plasma arrays of inverse pyramidal cavities have been fabricated in p-Si wafers. Each cavity acts as a microscopic dielectric barrier discharge. Operated at atmospheric pressure in argon and excited with high voltage at about 10…

Recent observations by Hinode/SOT show that MHD waves and mass flows are simultaneously present in the fine structure of solar prominences. We investigate standing kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in flowing prominence threads from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

In this work, a systematic study, examining the propagation of periodic and solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma, is presented. Employing the quasi-neutral approximation and the conservation of momentum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Abbas , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. E. Allen , V. Koukouloyannis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. Karachalios

Observations of solar wind velocity distribution functions (VDFs) commonly reveal fine-scale structures. These features strongly influence kinetic processes such as wave damping and instability, yet their role remains poorly understood. We…

This study shows that a relativistic Hall effect significantly changes the properties of wave propagation by deriving a linear dispersion relation for relativistic Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD). Whereas, in non- relativistic HMHD, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Y. Kawazura

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 solar atmosphere is known to contain many different types of wavelike oscillation. Waves and other fluctuations (e.g., turbulent eddies) are believed to be responsible for at least some of the energy transport and dissipation that heats…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Steven R. Cranmer , Momchil E. Molnar

The effects of charge exchange on waves propagating in weakly ionized plasmas are discussed. It is shown that for low-frequency processes, ions and neutrals should be treated as a single fluid with some effective charge on all of them. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Vranjes , M. Kono , M. Luna

In partially ionised plasmas, the magnetic field can become decoupled from the neutral gas and diffuse through it in a process known as ambipolar diffusion. Although ambipolar diffusion has been implemented in several grid codes, we here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Ben A. Ayliffe

We examine the dispersive properties of linear fast standing modes in transversely nonuniform solar coronal slabs with finite gas pressure, or, equivalently, finite plasma beta. We derive a generic dispersion relation governing fast waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Sanjay Kumar , Hui Yu , Mijie Shi

The dynamics of internal waves in stratified media, such as the ocean or atmosphere, is highly dependent on the topography of their floor. A closed-form analytical solution can be derived only in cases when the water distribution density…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-10 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

The propagation of a wave in a medium is generally affected when the medium is moving with respect to the observer. Because plasma equilibria often involve plasma flows, for instance in astrophysics or in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Aymeric Braud , Julien Langlois , Renaud Gueroult

We review in this article the influence of surface waves on the thermally excited electromagnetic field. We study in particular the field emitted at subwalength distances of material surfaces. After reviewing the main properties of surface…

Magnetic flux tubes reaching from the solar convective zone into the chromosphere have to pass through the relatively cool, and therefore non-ideal (i.e. resistive) photospheric region enclosed between the highly ideal sub-photospheric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jens Kleimann , Gunnar Hornig

Switchbacks (rotations of the magnetic field) are observed on the Parker Solar Probe. Their evolution, content, and plasma effects are studied in this paper. The solar wind does not receive a net acceleration from switchbacks that it…

The k-filtering technique and wave polarization analysis are applied to Cluster magnetic field data to study plasma turbulence at the scale of the ion gyroradius in the fast solar wind. Waves are found propagating in directions nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Owen W. Roberts , Xing Li , Bo Li