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

Space Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , D. Laveder

Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In magnetic waveguides resonant absorption due to plasma inhomogeneity naturally transfers wave energy from large-scale motions to small-scale motions. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Soler , J. Andries , M. Goossens

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated Alfv\'en waves in an isolated solar arcade, which is gravitationally stratified and magnetically confined. We study numerically the propagation of Alfv\'en waves along such magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chmielewski , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava

We study the formation and evolution of a turbulent spectrum of Alfv\'en waves driven by reflection off the solar wind density gradients, starting from the coronal base up to 17 solar radii, well beyond the Alfv\'enic critical point. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 A. Verdini , M. Velli , E. Buchlin

Nonlinear energy transfer and dissipation in Alfv\'en wave turbulence are analyzed in the first gyrokinetic simulation spanning all scales from the tail of the MHD range to the electron gyroradius scale. For typical solar wind parameters at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 D. Told , F. Jenko , J. M. TenBarge , G. G. Howes , G. W. Hammett

We study the linear theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, namely the Alfv{\'e}n and the fast and slow magnetosonic modes in a rotating Hall-MHD plasma with the effects of the obliqueness of the external magnetic field and the Coriolis…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 A. P. Misra , R. Dey , V. Krishan

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

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

We investigate the nature of the Alfv\'enic turbulence cascade in two fluid MHD simulations in order to determine if turbulence is damped once the ion and neutral species become decoupled at a critical scale called the ambipolar diffusion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian , D. Balsara , C. Meyer , J. Cho

This paper presents the numerical verification of an asymptotic analytical solution for the nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating Alfven waves, the fundamental building block of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kevin D. Nielson , Gregory G. Howes , William Dorland

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are subject to parametric decays which can have important consequences in space, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas. Though the Alfv\'en wave parametric decay instability was predicted decades ago,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feiyu Li , Xiangrong Fu , Seth Dorfman

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

Certain types of plasma waves are known to become parametrically unstable under specific plasma conditions, in which the pump wave will decay into several daughter waves with different wavenumbers and frequencies. In the past, the related…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch , Uwe Motschmann , Joachim Müller

We use 2.5-D electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation code to investigate the acceleration of electrons in solar coronal holes through the interaction of Alfv\'en waves with an interplume region. The interplume is modeled by a cavity…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Khalil Daiffallah , Fabrice Mottez

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

This study investigates ion kinetic effects during the parametric decay instability (PDI) of parallel-propagating Alfv\'en waves under plasma conditions characteristic of the Earth's ionosphere. By using a series of hybrid particle-in-cell…

Motivated by recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations of "switchbacks" (abrupt, large-amplitude reversals in the radial magnetic field, which exhibit Alfv\'enic correlations) we examine the dynamics of large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves in…

Evolution of the parametric decay instability (PDI) of a circularly polarized Aflv\'en wave in a turbulent low-beta plasma background is investigated using 3D hybrid simulations. It is shown that the turbulence reduces the growth rate of…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li , Vadim Roytershteyn

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
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