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Fractal MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Luigi Nocera
Luigi Nocera*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Fisica Atomica e Molecolare - CNR, Via Giardino 7, I-56127Pisa

Abstract

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Nonlinear MHD waves forced into a bounded cavity exhibit structural instability of their equilibria and periodic orbits as the forcing varies. For some values of the forcing the computed Poincaré maps, Lyapunov exponents and phase-space correlation reveal that the waves become chaotic; the Haussdorff dimension of the waves’ attracting set lies between its correlation dimension (≈ 2.2) and its information dimension (≈ 2.25).

Type
Session 9. Convections and Oscillation in Active Regions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 538 - 541
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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