Torsional Alfvén waves in solar magnetic flux tubes of axial symmetry
@article{Murawski2015TorsionalAW, title={Torsional Alfv{\'e}n waves in solar magnetic flux tubes of axial symmetry}, author={Krzysztof Murawski and A A Solov'ev and Zdzislaw E. Musielak and Abhishek K. Srivastava and J. Kraskiewicz}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2015}, volume={577} }
Aims. Propagation and energy transfer of torsional Alfven waves in solar magnetic flux tubes of axial symmetry is studied. Methods. An analytical model of a solar magnetic flux tube of axial symmetry is developed by specifying a magnetic flux and deriving general analytical formulas for the equilibrium mass density and gas pressure. The main advantage of this model is that it can be easily adopted to any axisymmetric magnetic structure. The model is used to numerically simulate the propagation…
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