Formation of intensive magnetic flux tubes in a converging flow of partially ionized solar photospheric plasma

DOI10.1023/A:1015162131331MaRDI QIDQ1610271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. L. Khodachenko, V. V. Zaitsev

Publication date 19 August 2002

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015162131331

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic compressionJoule heatingmagnetic flux tubesOhm's lawpartially ionized plasmaphotospheric magnetic fieldsRayleigh-Taylor type instabilitysuper-granfular cellsthermal effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Review text

A mechanism yielding formation of strong magnetic field flux tubes at edges of super-granular cells is elaborated assuming convergent plasma motions in initially weak photospheric magnetic fields. A slab of partially ionized plasma is subject to dynamic compression by opposite plasma flows, which eventually results in a hydromagnetic Rayleigh-Taylor type instability and in formation of individual high intensity magnetic flux tubes. The authors also discuss thermal effects and temperature distribution due to Joule heating in such a partially ionized plasma configuration.

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