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Nonlinear Waves in Force-Free Fibrils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Y.D. Zhugzhda
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr 6, D–79104 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
V.M. Nakariakov
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland

Abstract

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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.

Type
Filaments and Their Environment
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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