Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General Principles
- 2 Waves in a Uniform Medium
- 3 Magnetically Structured Atmospheres
- 4 Surface Waves
- 5 Magnetic Slabs
- 6 Magnetic Flux Tubes
- 7 The Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube
- 8 Connection Formulas
- 9 Gravitational Effects
- 10 Thin Flux Tubes: The Sausage Mode
- 11 Thin Flux Tubes: The Kink Mode
- 12 Damping
- 13 Nonlinear Aspects
- 14 Solar Applications of MHD Wave Theory
- References
- Index
6 - Magnetic Flux Tubes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General Principles
- 2 Waves in a Uniform Medium
- 3 Magnetically Structured Atmospheres
- 4 Surface Waves
- 5 Magnetic Slabs
- 6 Magnetic Flux Tubes
- 7 The Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube
- 8 Connection Formulas
- 9 Gravitational Effects
- 10 Thin Flux Tubes: The Sausage Mode
- 11 Thin Flux Tubes: The Kink Mode
- 12 Damping
- 13 Nonlinear Aspects
- 14 Solar Applications of MHD Wave Theory
- References
- Index
Summary
The modes of oscillation of a magnetic flux tube are explored, working from the fundamental differential equations obtained in Chapter 3. Sausage modes and kink modes (as in a magnetic slab) are investigated and their dispersion relations understood. Fluting modes also occur. Dispersion relations and diagrams, each similar to those arising in a slab, are derived and displayed, for both photospheric and coronal conditions. Leaky waves are explored. Resonant absorption in a flux tube is examined, with the decay rate obtained for a $\beta = 0$ tube. Two profiles of density across a thin layer on the boundary of the tube are explored, the linear profile and the sinusoidal profile, with decay rates obtained for both.
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- MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere , pp. 139 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019