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The motivation for this study is to include the effect of plasma flow in Alfv\'en wave (AW) damping via phase mixing and to explore the observational implications. Our magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations and analytical calculations show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 D. Tsiklauri

Alfv\'en waves are responsible for the transfer of magnetic energy in the magnetized plasma. They are involved in heating solar atmosphere and driving solar wind through various nonlinear processes. Since the magnetic field configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

We investigate the dynamics of an Alfven surface (where the Alfven speed equals the advection velocity) in the context of core collapse supernovae during the phase of accretion on the proto-neutron star. Such a surface should exist even for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jerome Guilet , Thierry Foglizzo , Sebastien Fromang

We study the impulsively generated non-linear Alfv\'en waves in the solar atmosphere, and describe their most likely role in the observed non-thermal broadening of some spectral lines in solar coronal holes. We solve numerically the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Chmielewski , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak

The Alfv\'en wave energy flux in the corona can be explored using the electron density and velocity amplitude of the waves. The velocity amplitude of Alfv\'en waves can be obtained from the non-thermal velocity of the spectral line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Girjesh R. Gupta , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason

Alfv\'en waves are known to be important carriers of magnetic energy that could play a role in coronal heating and/or solar wind acceleration. As these waves are efficient energy carriers, how they are dissipated still remains one of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Anmol Kumar , Thomas A. Howson , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel

Aims. Estimates of coronal wave energy remain uncertain as a large fraction of the energy is likely hidden in the non-thermal line widths of emission lines. In order to estimate these wave energies, many previous studies have considered the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Lianne Fyfe , Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Vaibhav Pant , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We present a measurement of the energy carried and dissipated by Alfv\'en waves in a polar coronal hole. Alfv\'en waves have been proposed as the energy source that heats the corona and drives the solar wind. Previous work has shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Michael Hahn , Daniel W. Savin

We analyse nonlinear evolution of torsional Alfv\'en waves in a straight magnetic flux tube filled in with a low-$\beta$ plasma, and surrounded with a plasma of lower density. Such magnetic tubes model, in particular, a segment of a coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 S. V. Shestov , V. M. Nakariakov , A. S. Ulyanov , A. A. Reva , S. V. Kuzin

The solar atmosphere may be heated by Alfven waves that propagate up from the convection zone and dissipate their energy in the chromosphere and corona. To further test this theory, we consider wave heating in an active region observed on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Asgari-Targhi , A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

A comprehensive understanding of solar coronal heating and charged particle acceleration remains one of the most critical challenges in space and astrophysical plasma physics. In this study, we explore the contribution of Alfv\'en waves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Syed Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , Yeimy J. Rivera , Andreas Shalchi , L. -L. Zhao

Our study investigates the properties of Alfv\'en waves in partially ionised solar plasmas in the presence of steady, field-aligned, flows of charged and neutral particles. Our work aims to understand how such flows modify wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Nada F. Alshehri , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun , Gary Verth

Complete asymptotic expansions are developed for slow, Alfv\'en and fast magnetohydrodynamic waves at the base of an isothermal three-dimensional (3D) plane stratified atmosphere. Together with existing convergent Frobenius series solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Paul S. Cally

The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

We present simulation results of the impulsively generated linear and non-linear Alfv\'en waves in the weakly curved coronal magnetic flux-tubes (coronal funnels) and discuss their implications for the coronal heating and solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. Chmielewski , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak

Alfven waves are considered as potential transporters of energy heating the solar corona. We seek spectroscopic signatures of the Alfven waves in the chromosphere occupied by a bright network element, investigating temporal variations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 J. Koza , P. Sütterlin , P. Gömöry , J. Rybák , A. Kucera

We solve numerically the ideal MHD equations with an external gravitational field in 2D in order to study the effects of impulsively generated linear and non-linear Alfv\'en waves into isolated solar arcades and coronal funnels. We analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , F. S. Guzman

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

Context. Structuring in the solar atmosphere, in the form of inhomogeneities transverse to the magnetic field, is believed to play a vital role in wave propagation, conversion, and absorption. Aims. We investigated the effect of transverse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-05 Samuel Skirvin , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Torsional Alfv\'en waves in coronal plasma loops are usually considered to be non-collective, i.e. consist of cylindrical surfaces evolving independently, which significantly complicates their detection in observations. This non-collective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 S. A. Belov , D. I. Riashchikov , D. Y. Kolotkov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich , V. V. Bezrukovs