Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999a%26a...342..300h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.342, p.300-310 (1999)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Waves, Sun: Corona, Sun: Chromosphere, Methods: Numerical, Sun: Magnetic Fields, Mhd
Scientific paper
The behavior of MHD waves propagating in magnetically structured plasmas has been extensively investigated in the literature. In most of these studies, the wave treatment was restricted to the linear regime. This paper presents the results of time-dependent and nonlinear numerical simulations of MHD body and surface waves propagating along magnetic slabs. Both longitudinal and transverse waves are computed, and the wave behavior in the linear and nonlinear regime is compared. Two physical processes are investigated in detail. The first is the energy leakage from the magnetic slab to the field-free external medium. It is found that the energy leakage is 62% for transverse slab waves, which means that the efficiency of energy transfer along the slab by these waves is significantly reduced. The second process is the excitation of MHD waves in two adjacent magnetic slabs by large amplitude acoustic waves from the external medium. The slabs have physical parameters typical for photospheric magnetic flux tubes. It is shown that only 1-3% of the energy carried by these acoustic waves is transferred to the slabs, and that the efficiency of this process strongly depends on the location of the slabs relative to the source of acoustic waves and on the amplitude of these waves. Both physical processes are important for the problem of heating of magnetically structured regions in the solar and stellar atmospheres.
Huang Pu
Musielak Zdzislaw E.
Ulmschneider Peter
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