Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General Principles
- 2 Waves in a Uniform Medium
- 3 Magnetically Structured Atmospheres
- 4 Surface Waves
- 5 Magnetic Slabs
- 6 Magnetic Flux Tubes
- 7 The Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube
- 8 Connection Formulas
- 9 Gravitational Effects
- 10 Thin Flux Tubes: The Sausage Mode
- 11 Thin Flux Tubes: The Kink Mode
- 12 Damping
- 13 Nonlinear Aspects
- 14 Solar Applications of MHD Wave Theory
- References
- Index
7 - The Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General Principles
- 2 Waves in a Uniform Medium
- 3 Magnetically Structured Atmospheres
- 4 Surface Waves
- 5 Magnetic Slabs
- 6 Magnetic Flux Tubes
- 7 The Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube
- 8 Connection Formulas
- 9 Gravitational Effects
- 10 Thin Flux Tubes: The Sausage Mode
- 11 Thin Flux Tubes: The Kink Mode
- 12 Damping
- 13 Nonlinear Aspects
- 14 Solar Applications of MHD Wave Theory
- References
- Index
Summary
The twisted flux tube is explored. Its dispersion relation is obtained for an incompressible plasma and examined in the special case of a thin tube. The case of a compressible medium is also discussed for small twist. The special case of a twisted annular region is also explored.
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- MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere , pp. 182 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019