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Toroidal vortices are whirling disturbances rotating about a ring-shaped core while advancing in the direction normal to the ring orifice. Toroidal vortices are commonly found in nature and being studied in a wide range of disciplines. Here…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-06 Chenhao Wan , Qian Cao , Jian Chen , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

Recent observations have revealed the ubiquitous presence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations in the solar corona. The aim of this review is to present recent progress in the observational study of four types of wave (or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-02 Tongjiang Wang

Observations revealed that various kinds of oscillations are excited in solar flare regions. Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in the flare emissions are commonly observed in a wide range of wavelengths. Recent observations have found that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Shinsuke Takasao , Kazunari Shibata

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

Kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied for their potential contributions to coronal heating and their role in plasma diagnostics through coronal seismology. A key focus is the strong damping of large-amplitude kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Lateral motions of spicules serve as vital indicators of transverse waves in the solar atmosphere, and their study is crucial for understanding the wave heating process of the corona. Recent observations have focused on "high-frequency"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Hidetaka Kuniyoshi , Munehito Shoda , Richard J. Morton , Takaaki Yokoyama

The rotation of erupting filaments in the solar corona is addressed through a parametric simulation study of unstable, rotating flux ropes in bipolar force-free initial equilibrium. The Lorentz force due to the external shear field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Kliem , T. Török , W. T. Thompson

How the solar wind is accelerated to its supersonic speed is intimately related to how it is heated. Mechanisms based on ion-cyclotron resonance have been successful in explaining a large number of observations, those concerning the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-03 Bo Li , Shadia Rifai Habbal

We present an analytic approximate seismic inversion scheme for damped transverse coronal loop oscillations based on the thin tube and thin boundary approximation for computing the period and the damping time. Asymptotic expressions for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Goossens , I. Arregui , J. L. Ballester , T. J. Wang

We describe a 2.5D MHD simulation describing the evolution of cool jets triggered by initial vertical velocity perturbations in the solar chromosphere. We implement random velocity pulses of amplitude 20-50 km/s between 1 Mm and 1.5 Mm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Abhishek K. Srivastava , Balveer Singh

It has been shown in a previous work that torsional Alfv\'en waves can drive turbulence in nonuniform coronal loops with a purely axial magnetic field. Here we explore the role of the magnetic twist. We model a coronal loop as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sergio Díaz-Suárez , Roberto Soler

Motivated by prior remote observations of a transition from striated solar coronal structures to more isotropic ``flocculated'' fluctuations, we propose that the dynamics of the inner solar wind just outside the Alfv\'en critical zone, and…

We report on the results of four convective dynamo simulations with an outer coronal layer. The magnetic field is self-consistently generated by the convective motions beneath the surface. Above the convection zone, we include a polytropic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-14 Jörn Warnecke , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit. J. Mantere , Axel Brandenburg

The Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is maintained at mega-Kelvin temperatures and fills the heliosphere with a supersonic outflowing wind. The dissipation of magnetic waves and direct electric currents are likely to be the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 A. K. Srivastava , Sripan Mondal , Eric R. Priest , Sudheer K. Mishra , David I. Pontin , R. Y. Kwon , Ding Yuan , K. Murawski , Ayumi Asai

Decayless kink oscillations, which are nearly omnipresent in the solar corona, are believed to be driven by continuously operating energy supply. In this letter, we investigate an external continuous excitation of an apparent decayless…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Dong Li , Zhentong Li , Fanpeng Shi , Yang Su , Wei Chen , Fu Yu , Chuan Li , Ye Qiu , Yu Huang , Zongjun Ning

Coronal waves are an important aspect of the dynamics of the plasma in the corona. Wavefront dislocations are topological features of most waves in nature and also of magnetohydrodynamic waves. Are there dislocations in coronal waves? The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 A. López Ariste , M. Luna , I. Arregui , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

The subject of this study is oscillations in the lower atmosphere in coronal-hole regions, where the conditions are favorable for propagation between the atmospheric layers. Based on spectroscopic observations in photospheric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov , Maksim Chelpanov , Aleksandr Kiselev

We use an autonomous three-dimensional dynamical system to study embedded vortex structures that are observed to form in computational fluid dynamic simulations of patient-specific cerebral aneurysm geometries. These structures, described…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 Greg Byrne , Juan Cebral

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

Aims: Propagation and energy transfer of torsional Alfv\'en waves in solar magnetic flux tubes of axial symmetry is studied. Methods: An analytical model of a solar magnetic flux tube of axial symmetry is developed by specifying a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Murawski , A. Solov'ev , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava , J. Kraskiewicz