Viscous computations of resonant absorption of MHD waves in flux tubes by FEM

Computer Science – Numerical Analysis

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Flow Equations, Magnetohydrodynamics, Mathematical Models, Numerical Analysis, Viscous Flow, Acoustic Excitation, Compressible Flow, Flux Density, Plasma Resonance, Stress Tensors

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A numerical code is presented for computing the stationary state of resonant absorption of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in cylindrical flux tubes in linear, compressible, and viscous MHD. The full viscosity stress tensor is included in the code with the five viscosity coefficients as given by Braginskii (1965). Also non-zero plasma pressure effects are taken into account, and the finite elements discretization with the Galerkin method has been used. The implementation of the stress tensor and the numerical accuracy of the tensorial viscous MHD code are scrutinized in test case. The test case involves the absorption of waves in cylindrical flux tubes considered by Lou (1990) and Goossens and Poedts (1992) in the context of absorption of acoustic oscillations. The results for the absorption rates obtained with the tensorial viscous code agree completely with the results obtained by Lou in a scalar viscous MHD and by Goossens and Poedts in resistive MHD. This verifies not only the complicated tensor viscous code but again proves that the absorption rate is independent of the actual dissipation mechanism.

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