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Transverse oscillations of coronal loops are often observed and have been theoretically interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. Numerical simulations by Terradas et al. (2008, ApJ 687, L115) suggest that shear flows generated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. Soler , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester , M. Goossens

In the present review article, we discuss the recent developments in studying the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in various solar magnetic structures. The main description is on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Zhelyazkov

Kelvin-Helmholtz {instability induced} turbulence is one promising mechanism by which loops in the solar corona can be heated by MHD waves. In this paper we present an analytical model of the dissipation rate of {Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-20 Andrew Hillier , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas

We model an imaged Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability on a coronal mass ejecta (CME) in the lower corona by investigating conditions under which kink ($m = 1$) and $m = -3$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in an uniformly twisted flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Chandra

The shear-flow-driven instability can play an important role in energy transfer processes in coronal plasma. We present for the first time the observation of a kink-like oscillation of a streamer probably caused by the streaming kinkmode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Weiqun Gan

Solar wind plasma is supposed to be structured in magnetic flux tubes carried from the solar surface. Tangential velocity discontinuity near the boundaries of individual tubes may result in Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, which may contribute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. V. Zaqarashvili , Z. Vörös , I. Zhelyazkov

Recent high resolution AIA/SDO images show evidence of the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) expand in the ambient corona. A large-scale magnetic field mostly tangential to the interface is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Daniel O. Gomez , Edward E. DeLuca , Pablo D. Mininni

Instabilities in oscillating loops are believed to be essential for dissipating the wave energy and heating the solar coronal plasma. Our aim is to study the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in an oscillating loop that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Timothy Duckenfield , Gabriel Pelouze

We investigate conditions under which kink magnetohydrodynamic waves propagating along photospheric uniformly twisted flux tubes with axial mass flows become unstable as a consequence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We employed the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We investigate the conditions under which the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a cylindrical magnetic flux tube moving along its axis become unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability. We \textbf{use} the dispersion relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 I. Zhelyazkov , Z. Dimitrov

Magnetohydrodynamic kink waves naturally form as a consequence of perturbations to a structured medium, for example transverse oscillations of coronal loops. Linear theory has provided many insights in the evolution of linear oscillations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui , Takeshi Matsumoto

Context: In the context of the solar coronal heating problem, one possible explanation for the high coronal temperature is the release of energy by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. The energy transfer is believed to be possible, among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michaël Geeraerts , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Context. The magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been proposed as a means of generating magnetohy- drodynamic turbulence and encouraging wave energy dissipation in the solar corona, particularly within transversely oscillating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , David Pontin

Aims: We quantify the effects of twisted magnetic fields on the development of the magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in transversely oscillating coronal loops. Methods: We modelled a fundamental standing kink mode in a straight,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin

In the present paper, we study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability in a high-temperature solar surge observed in NOAA AR11271 using the Solar Dynamics Observatory data on 2011 August 25. We study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

Recent observations support the propagation of a number of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes which, under some conditions, can become unstable and the developing instability is the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). In its nonlinear stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

Recent observations show cool, oscillating prominence threads fading when observed in cool spectral lines and appearing in warm spectral lines. A proposed mechanism to explain this evolution is that the threads were heated by turbulence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Hillier , Inigo Arregui

Flow-induced instabilities are relevant for the storage and dynamics of magnetic fields in stellar convection zones and possibly also in other astrophysical contexts. We continue the study started in the first paper of this series by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Holzwarth , D. Schmitt , M. Schuessler

Recent numerical simulations have demonstrated that transverse coronal loop oscillations are susceptible to the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability due to the counter-streaming motions at the loop boundary. We present the first analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Mihai Barbulescu , Michael S. Ruderman , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Robert Erdelyi

We investigate the conditions under which the fluting ($m = 2$), $m = 3$, and $m = 12$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a uniformly twisted flux tube moving along its axis become unstable in order to model the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , L. Ofman , R. Chandra
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