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Scientific paper
Jun 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.confr..27r&link_type=abstract
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 27
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Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Solar Wind, Magnetic Fields, Coronal Holes, Nonlinearity, Solitary Waves, Magnetic Effects, Mass Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Shock Waves
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Filamentary magnetic fields and intermittent mass flows with highly variant physical parameters as observed in coronal holes provide, from a theoretical point of view, natural conditions for strongly nonlinear dynamics. The presence of sheared mass flows along fine scale magnetic structures results in strong nonlinear instability, most important of which is the explosive instability. We specify the physical conditions for several different manifestations of the onset of explosive instability and its further evolution: (1) fully developed explosive instability - explosive release of the energy; (2) shock formation - stabilization of instability by small scale spatial inhomogeneities leads to formation of subsequent shocks having a number of peculiarities that is determined by the interplay of thermal and viscous losses (for example, in predominance of thermal losses the isothermal jump occurs); and (3) solitary waves - stabilization of explosive instability by nonlinear dispersion effect leads to formation of a 'gas' of solitons which are later either damped away with characteristic time and energy input or evolve to solitons with explosively growing amplitudes. Each scenario is completely determined by the physical parameters of the medium, thus producing a quite uneven distribution of energy in a coronal hole and, respectively, an uneven outward propagation of the energy flux.
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