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Decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is important in various astrophysical contexts, including early universe magnetic fields, star formation, turbulence in galaxy clusters, magnetospheres and solar corona. Previously known in the…

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An enhancement in high-frequency acoustic power is commonly observed in the solar photosphere and chromosphere surrounding magnetic active regions. We perform 3D linear forward wave modelling with a simple wavelet pulse acoustic source to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Carlos Rijs , Hamed Moradi , Damien Przybylski , Paul S. Cally

Alfv\'en waves may be generated via mode conversion from fast magneto-acoustic waves near their reflection level in the solar atmosphere, with implications both for coronal oscillations and for active region helio-seismology. In active…

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We investigate the steepening of the magnetic fluctuation power law spectra observed in the inner solar wind for frequencies higher than 0.5 Hz. This high frequency part of the spectrum may be attributed to dispersive nonlinear processes.…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Galtier

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

We examine wave propagation and the formation of shocks in strongly magnetized plasmas by applying a variational technique and the method of characteristics to the coupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and quantum-electrodynamic (QED) equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeremy S. Heyl , Lars Hernquist

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

A new method for the determination of the Alfven wave energy generated during magnetic reconnection is introduced and used to analyze the results from two-dimensional MHD simulations. It is found that the regions with strong Alfven wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. C. Wang , L. J. Li , Z. W. Ma , X. Zhang , L. C. Lee

The coupled motion between the hydrodynamic flow and magnetic field introduces significant complexity into the structure of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A key factor contributing to this complexity is the presence of Alfv\'en…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

Electron and proton acceleration in three-dimensional electric and magnetic fields is studied through test particle simulations. The fields are obtained by a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of magnetic reconnection in slab…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Onofri , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

A brief review of the existing kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) hybrid models for the alpha particle physics in burning plasma demonstrates that the pressure-coupling scheme is equivalent to the current-coupling scheme only in a specific…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Modhuchandra Laishram , Ping Zhu , Yawei Hou

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg

In a nonlinear three-wave mixing process, the interacting waves can accumulate an adiabatic geometric phase (AGP) if the nonlinear coefficient of the crystal is modulated in a proper manner along the nonlinear crystal. This concept was…

A weak wave turbulence theory is developed for two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We derive and analyze the kinetic equation describing the three-wave interactions of pseudo-Alfv\'en waves. Our analysis is greatly helped by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Natalia Tronko , Sergey V. Nazarenko , Sebastien Galtier

We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of rotating radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes. In the simulations, we continuously inject magnetized matter into the computational domain near the outer boundary, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan , Marek A. Abramowicz

Slow magnetosonic waves associated with flares were observed in coronal loops by SOHO/SUMER, SDO/AIA in various EUV bandpasses, and other instruments. The excitation and damping of slow magnetosonic waves provides information on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been shown to be ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and can in principle carry sufficient energy to generate and maintain the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere or corona. However, direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Takenori J. Okamoto , Patrick Antolin , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

Transverse oscillations of solar filament and prominence threads have been frequently reported. These oscillations have the common features of being of short period (2-10 min) and being damped after a few periods. Kink magnetohydrodynamic…

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