Testing Alfvén wave propagation in a ``realistic set-up of the solar atmosphere

DOI10.1080/03091929.2019.1672676MaRDI QIDQ5065703zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Piyali Chatterjee

Publication date 22 March 2022

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08166

zbMATH Keywords

Alfvén wavesmagnetohydrodynamicssolar-atmosphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: We present a radiative magneto-hydrodynamic simulation set-up using the PENCIL CODE to study the generation, propagation and dissipation of Alfv'en waves in the solar atmosphere which includes a convective layer, photosphere below and chromosphere, transition region and the corona above. We prepare a setup of steady-state solar convection where the imposed external magnetic field also has reached the final value gradually starting from a very small value. From that state, we start several simulations by varying the magnetic Prandtl number and the forcing strengths. We find the propagation characteristics of waves excited in this simulation run depend strongly on the magnetic Prandtl number and the wave number of the forcing. For magnetic Prandtl number of unity, we obtain localized heating in the corona due to shock dissipation.

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