Microwave response to kink oscillations of a plasma slab

Large-amplitude Electron Oscillations in a Plasma Slab

Study of Kink Instabilities in Plasma Channels

Heavy-ion beam transport in plasma channels is an option to transport high-current beams which are required in fusion reactor scenarios. The channel provides free electrons that space-charge and current neutralize the ion beams. In addition, the channel creates a large azimuthal magnetic field that prevents the beam ions from leaving the channel. A stable channel is necessary to guarantee good ...

Resonant damping of kink oscillations of cooling coronal magnetic loops

The simultaneous effect of amplification due to cooling and damping due to resonant absorption on the kink oscillations of coronal loops is studied. The governing equation describing the kink oscillations is derived in the thin tube thin boundary layer approximation. The cooling time is assumed to be much larger than the oscillation period, and the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method is used...

Excitation of standing kink oscillations in coronal loops

In this work we review the efforts that have been done to study the excitation of the standing fast kink body mode in coronal loops. We mainly focus on the time-dependent problem, which is appropriate to describe flare or CME induced kink oscillations. The analytical and numerical studies in slab and cylindrical loop geometries are reviewed. We discuss the results from very simple one-dimension...

Damping of vertical coronal loop kink oscillations through wave tunneling

The decay rate of vertical kink waves in a curved flux tube is modeled numerically. The full MHD equations are solved for a curved equilibrium flux tube in an arcade geometry and the decay of ψ, the integral over the flux tube of the modulus of the velocity perpendicular to the local magnetic field, is measured. These simulations are 2D and are thus restricted to kink oscillations in the loop p...