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A Case For Alfven Wave Heating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

F. Califano
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Florence Largo Enrico Fermi, 5 50125 Florence, Italy
C. Chiuderi
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Florence Largo Enrico Fermi, 5 50125 Florence, Italy
G. Einaudi
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Florence Largo Enrico Fermi, 5 50125 Florence, Italy

Abstract

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The resistive dissipation of Alfvén waves in magnetically structured media is examined within the framework of an analytically solvable model in plane geometry. A new class of rapidly oscillations solutions is found, for which the role of resistivity extends to the whole system.

Type
VI. Chromospheric and Coronal Heating
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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