Issue |
A&A
Volume 494, Number 1, January IV 2009
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Page(s) | 317 - 327 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811106 | |
Published online | 04 December 2008 |
On the validity of nonlinear Alfvén resonance in space plasmas
Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK e-mail: [app06ctc;i.ballai;m.s.ruderman]@sheffield.ac.uk
Received:
8
October
2008
Accepted:
21
November
2008
Aims. In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the local Alfvén (or slow) frequency of a magnetic surface. This behaviour is confined to a thin region, known as the dissipative layer, which embraces the resonant magnetic surface. Although driven MHD waves have small dimensionless amplitude far away from the resonant surface, this near-resonant behaviour in the dissipative layer may cause a breakdown of linear theory. Our aim is to study the nonlinear effects in Alfvén dissipative layer
Methods. In the present paper, the method of simplified matched asymptotic expansions developed for nonlinear slow resonant waves is used to describe nonlinear effects inside the Alfvén dissipative layer.
Results. The nonlinear corrections to resonant waves in the Alfvén dissipative layer are derived, and it is proved that at the Alfvén resonance (with isotropic/anisotropic dissipation) wave dynamics can be described by the linear theory with great accuracy.
Key words: magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) / methods: analytical / Sun: atmosphere / Sun: oscillations
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