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A possible key element for large-scale energy release in the solar corona is an MHD kink instability in a single twisted magnetic flux tube. An initial helical current sheet fragments in a turbulent way into smaller-scale sheets, similarly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 G. Cozzo , J. Reid , P. Pagano , F. Reale , A. W. Hood

Recent numerical studies of oscillating flux tubes have established the significance of resonant absorption in the damping of propagating transverse oscillations in coronal loops. The nonlinear nature of the mechanism has been examined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , P. Antolin

The linear MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an anisotropic plasma concerning the direction of an external magnetic field is examined in detail. For this purpose, the MHD equations are used to describe the motion of plasma as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 N. S. Dzhalilov , R. Ismayilli

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) can occur when there is a relative motion between two adjacent fluids. In the case of magnetized plasma, the shear velocity must exceed the local Alfv\'{e}n speed for the instability to develop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Olga Khabarova , Ryun-Yong Kwon , Yogesh , Eyal Heifetz , Katariina Nykyri

In the highly structured solar corona, resonant absorption is an unavoidable mechanism of energy transfer from global transverse MHD waves to local azimuthal Alfv\'en waves. Due to its localised nature, a direct detection of this mechanism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Patrick Antolin , Ineke De Moortel , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

We study Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability at the interface of a disc and corona system by doing a linear perturbation analysis. The disc is assumed to be thin, however, the corona is considered to be nearly quasispherical because of its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Mohsen Shadmehri , Perikles Rammos

Prominences are incredibly dynamic across the whole range of their observable spatial scales, with observations revealing gravity-driven fluid instabilities, waves, and turbulence. With all these complex motions, it would be expected that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Andrew Hillier , Vanessa Polito

We present observations of the formation, propagation and decay of vortex- shaped features in coronal images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) associated with an eruption starting at about 2:30UT on Apr 8, 2010. The series of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Leon Ofman , Barbara J. Thompson

A self-consistent, thermodynamic approach is employed to derive the wave energy of a magnetohydrodynamic system within the harmonic approximation and to obtain the familiar dispersion relation from the resulting equation of motion. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Chatterjee , P. S. Joarder

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of a shear layer with an initially-uniform magnetic field in the direction of flow is studied in the framework of 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with finite resistivity and viscosity using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , J. M. Schroeder

Context. Recent observations of solar prominences show the presence of turbulent flows that may be caused by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilites (KHI). However, the observed flow velocities are below the classical threshold for the onset of KHI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurring in a single shear flow configuration that is embedded in a uniform flow-aligned magnetic field, is revisited by means of high resolution two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Baty , R. Keppens , P. Comte

Using two-dimensional simulations, we numerically explore the dependences of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability upon various physical parameters, including viscosity, width of sheared layer, flow speed, and magnetic field strength. In most cases,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chunlin Tian , Yao Chen

Over the last few years it became clear that turbulent magnetic reconnection and magnetized turbulence are inseparable. It was not only shown that reconnection is responsible for violating the frozen-in condition in turbulence, but also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves , Alex Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves have been observed frequently in solar coronal flux tubes, which makes them a great tool for seismology of the solar corona. Here, the effect of viscosity is studied on the evolution of kink waves. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Roberto Soler , Kayoomars Karami

Observations show various jets in the solar atmosphere with significant rotational motions, which may undergo instabilities leading to heat ambient plasma. We study the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of twisted and rotating jets caused…

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

Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been shown to be ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and can in principle carry sufficient energy to generate and maintain the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere or corona. However, direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Takenori J. Okamoto , Patrick Antolin , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is commonly found in many astrophysical, laboratory, and space plasmas. It could mix plasma components of different properties and convert dynamic fluid energy from large scale structure to smaller…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ding Yuan , Yuandeng Shen , Yu Liu , Xueshang Feng , Rony Keppens

Magnetic flux tubes in the solar corona support a rich variety of transverse oscillations, which are theoretically interpreted as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes with a fast and/or Alfv\'enic character. In the standard flux tube model made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Roberto Soler , Andrew Hillier

Recent numerical studies revealed that transverse motions of coronal loops can induce the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI). This process could be important in coronal heating because it leads to dissipation of energy at small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Mingzhe Guo , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Kostas Karampelas , Bo Li , Patrick Antolin , Ineke De Moortel