On the effects of viscosity and anisotropic resistivity on the solar atmospheric heating

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The equations of MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) are written for non-uniform viscosity and resistivity, the latter in the cases of Ohmic and anisotropic resistivity; in the case of Ohmic (anisotropic) diffusivity, there is one (two) transverse components of the velocity and magnetic field perturbation, leading to a second-order (fourth-order) dissipative Alfvén wave equation. In the more general case of dissipative Alfvén waves with viscosity and anisotropic resistivity, the fourth-order wave equation may be replaced by two decoupled second order equations for right and left-polarized waves, whose dispersion relation shows that the first resistive diffusivity causes dissipation like the viscosity, whereas the second resistive diffusivity causes a change in propagation speed. The relevance of the anisotropic resistivity to the heating of the solar atmosphere by dissipation of Alfvén waves is discussed.

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