Viscous Damping of Non-Adiabatic MHD Waves in an Unbounded Solar Coronal Plasma |
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| Authors: | Nagendra Kumar Pradeep Kumar |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, K.G.K. (P.G.) College, Moradabad, 244001, Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| Abstract: | The damping of MHD waves in solar coronal magnetic field is studied taking into account thermal conduction and compressive
viscosity as dissipative mechanisms. We consider viscous homogeneous unbounded solar coronal plasma permeated by a uniform
magnetic field. A general fifth-order dispersion relation for MHD waves has been derived and solved numerically for different
solar coronal regimes. The dispersion relation results three wave modes: slow, fast, and thermal modes. Damping time and damping
per periods for slow- and fast-mode waves determined from dispersion relation show that the slow-mode waves are heavily damped
in comparison with fast-mode waves in prominences, prominence–corona transition regions (PCTR), and corona. In PCTRs and coronal
active regions, wave instabilities appear for considered heating mechanisms. For same heating mechanisms in different prominences
the behavior of damping time and damping per period changes significantly from small to large wavenumbers. In all PCTRs and
corona, damping time always decreases linearly with increase in wavenumber indicate sharp damping of slow- and fast-mode waves. |
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