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We present the solitary Alfv\'en wave, an exact nonlinear solution of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, and construct a three-dimensional numerical model -- an \emph{Alfv\'enon}. The model is characterized by an unperturbed far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Zesen Huang , Marco Velli , Chen Shi , Yuliang Ding

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are observed in various systems in space and laboratories, demonstrating an interesting property that the wave shapes are stable even in the nonlinear regime. The ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Zensho Yoshida

We solve for waves in an isothermal, stratified medium with a magnetic field that points along a direction perpendicular to that of gravity and varies exponentially in the direction of gravity. We find exact analytical solutions for two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 B. Tripathi , Dhrubaditya Mitra

In a magnetised plasma on scales well above ion kinetic scales, any constant-magnitude magnetic field, accompanied by parallel Alfv\'enic flows, forms a nonlinear solution in an isobaric, constant-density background. These structures, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet

We consider the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) subjected to a strong magnetic field along $x_1$ direction in three-dimensional thin domains $\Omega_\delta=\mathbb{R}^2\times(-\delta,\delta)$ with slip boundary conditions. It is well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Li Xu

We study large-amplitude, very oblique Alfv\'en waves at low $\beta$, with small gradient length scales, comparable to the ion inertial scale $d_i$. Such waves have large density fluctuations, and slight dispersion from finite-frequency and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Alfred Mallet

We construct and study global solutions for the 3-dimensional incompressible MHD systems with arbitrary small viscosity. In particular, we provide a rigorous justification for the following dynamical phenomenon observed in many contexts:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Ling-Bing He , Li Xu , Pin Yu

We study propagating Alfven waves by solving the time-dependent equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one dimension numerically. In a homogeneous medium the circularly polarized Alfven wave is an exact solution of the ideal MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Turkmani , U. Torkelsson

The Alfv\'en waves are fundamental wave phenomena in magnetized plasmas and the dynamics of Alfv\'en waves are governed by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations called the MHD system. In this paper, we study the rigidity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Mengni Li , Pin Yu

Turbulent magnetic field fluctuations observed in the solar wind often maintain a constant magnitude condition accompanied by spherically polarized velocity fluctuations; these signatures are characteristic of large-amplitude Alfv\'{e}n…

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

We study plane-fronted electrovacuum waves in metric-affine gravity (MAG) with cosmological constant in the triplet ansatz sector of the theory. Their field strengths are, on the gravitational side, curvature $R_{\alpha}{}^{\beta}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Puetzfeld

It is proved that accelerating nondiffracting gravitational Airy wave--packets are solutions of linearized gravity. It is also showed that Airy functions are exact solutions to Einstein equations for non--accelerating nondiffracting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

Following the wellknown spacetime decomposition technique as applied to (d+1) dimensions we write down the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in a spatially at generalised FRW universe. Assuming an equation of state for the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 D. Panigrahi , Ajanta Das , S. Chatterjee

The purpose of this paper is to solve the inverse scattering problem of nonlinear Alfv\'en waves governed by the three dimensional ideal incompressible MHD system. Bridging together geometric methods and weighted energy estimates, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Mengni Li

Single fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations have been studied through direct numerical simulations (DNS) using pseudo-spectral methods in two as well as three spatial dimensions. At Alfv\'en resonance, a reversible periodic exchange of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Rupak Mukherjee , Rajaraman Ganesh , Abhijit Sen

This paper concerns the rigidity from infinity for Alfv\'en waves governed by ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations subjected to strong background magnetic fields along the $x_1$-axis in 3D thin domains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Mengni Li

Recently it was found that helical magnetized flows efficiently amplify Alfv\'en waves (Rogava et al. 2003, A&A, v.399, p.421). This robust and manifold nonmodal effect was found to involve regimes of transient algebraic growth (for purely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andria Rogava , Gianluigi Bodo , Silvano Massalgia , Zaza Osmanov

From a classical analysis, it is shown that the nondiffractive accelerating gravitational Airy wave packets are solutions of Einstein equations for their linearized tensor modes in a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Claudio Aravena-Plaza , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo

The linearized relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations describing a uniform axially magnetized cylindrical relativistic jet spine embedded in a uniform axially magnetized relativistically moving sheath are derived. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Philip E Hardee
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