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Nonlinear Waves in Force-Free Fibrils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Korteweg-de Vries equations for slow body and torsional weakly nonlinear Alfvén waves in twisted magnetic flux tubes are derived. Slow body solitons appear as a narrowing of the tube in a low β plasma and widening of the tube, when β ≫ 1. Alfvén torsional solitons appear as a widening (β > 1) and narrowing (β < 1) of the tube, where there is a local increase of tube twisting. Two scenarios of nonlinear dissipation of strongly nonlinear waves in twisted flux tubes are proposed.
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- Filaments and Their Environment
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 167: New Perspectives on Solar Prominences , 1998 , pp. 151 - 154
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998