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The long-term evolution of large-amplitude Alfven waves propagating in the solar wind is investigated by performing two-dimensional MHD simulations within the expanding box model. The linear and nonlinear phases of the parametric decay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 L. Del Zanna , L. Matteini , S. Landi , A. Verdini , M. Velli

In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-18 C. T. M. Clack , I. Ballai , M. S. Ruderman

The propagation and the evolution of Alfvenic pulses in the solar coronal arcades is investigated by means of MHD numerical simulations. Significant transverse oscillations in coronal loops, triggered by nearby flare events, are often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Del Zanna , Eveline Schaekens , Marco Velli

The arched field lines forming coronal arcades are often observed to undulate as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagate both across and along the magnetic field. These waves are most likely a combination of resonantly coupled fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. Alfven waves and magneto-sonic waves are particular classes of MHD waves. These wave modes are clearly different and have pure properties in uniform plasmas of infinite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Goossens , J. Andries , R. Soler , T. Van Doorsselaere , I. Arregui , J. Terradas

The transition region is a thin inhomogeneous region where Alfven waves' energy fluxes generated elsewhere in the solar atmosphere are effectively converted. Large-scale kinetic Alfven wave propagations, transmission, and reflection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Petko Nenovski

Gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through a uniformly magnetized plasma interact directly with the magnetic field and excite magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves with both electromagnetic and matter components. We study this process for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Generation of Alfv\'en and slow magneto-acoustic waves in weakly ionized atmospheres by excitation of the charges-only component of the two fluid (charges and neutrals) plasma is shown to be more or less efficient depending on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Paul S. Cally

Weak turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in strongly magnetized plasma is studied when the thermal pressure is less than the magnetic field pressure. In this situation the main nonlinear mechanism is the resonance scattering of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evgenii A. Kuznetsov

A two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves retaining ion finite Larmor radius corrections, parallel magnetic field fluctuations and electron inertia, is used to study turbulent cascades from the MHD to the sub-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

In this work we used Particle-In-Cell simulations to study the interaction of circularly polarised Alfv\'en waves with one dimensional plasma density inhomogeneities transverse to the uniform magnetic field (phase mixing) in collisionless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

We report analysis of sub-Alfv\'enic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbations in the low-\b{eta} radial-field solar wind using the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft data from 31 October to 12 November 2018. We calculate wave vectors using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 S. Q. Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Mijie Shi

We investigate the viability of MHD waves, in particular acoustic p-modes, in causing strong current accumulation at the null points. We begin with a three-dimensional numerical setup incorporating a gravitationally stratifed solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 Nitin Yadav , Rony Keppens

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

A 2.5D numerical model of magnetoacoustic-Alfv\'en linear mode conversions in the partially ionised low solar atmosphere induced by the Hall effect is surveyed, varying magnetic field strength and inclination, and wave frequency and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-06 Abbas Raboonik , Paul Cally

Alfv\'en waves may be difficult to excite at the photosphere due to low ionization fraction and suffer near-total reflection at the transition region (TR). Yet they are ubiquitous in the corona and heliosphere. To overcome these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shelley C. Hansen , Paul S. Cally

Alfv\'{e}nic component of MHD turbulence damps Alfv\'{e}nic waves. The consequences of this effect are important for many processes, from cosmic ray (CR) propagation to launching outflows and winds in galaxies and other magnetized systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-17 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu

We present a mechanism for the formation of the low frequency 1/f magnetic spectrum based on numerical solutions of a shell reduced-MHD model of the turbulent dynamics inside the sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind. We assign reasonably realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Verdini , R. Grappin , R. Pinto , M. Velli

A major coronal heating theory based on magnetic reconnection relies on the existence of braided magnetic field structures in the corona. In this small-angle reconnection scenario, numerical simulations indicate that the reconnected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 A. Ramada. C. Sukarmadji , Patrick Antolin

Interaction of impulsively generated MHD waves with a one-dimensional plasma inhomogeneity, transverse to the magnetic field, is considered in the three-dimensional regime. Because of the transverse inhomogeneity, MHD fluctuations, even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov
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