ON THE MECHANISM OF THE FORMATION OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC VORTICES IN THE SOLAR PLASMA
Journal Title: Odessa Astronomical Publications - Year 2015, Vol 28, Issue 2
Abstract
Based on the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for an incompressible conductive viscous fluid, the possible mechanism of the formation of giant MHD vortices recently discovered in the solar atmosphere (chromosphere) is analyzed. It is assumed that these vortices arise in the regions of the solar surface (photosphere) with ascending flows of hot plasma that arrives from the inner regions of the Sun as a result of thermal convection and is accelerated upward under the action of the chromospheric plasma pressure gradient. It is shown that, under the assumption of plasma incompressibility and flow continuity, the ascending plasma flows induce converging radial plasma flows, which create the convective and Coriolis nonlinear hydrodynamic forces due to the nonzero initial vorticity of the chromospheric plasma caused by Sun’s rotation. The combined action of these two forces leads to the exponential acceleration of the solid-body rotation of plasma inside the ascending flow, thereby creating a vortex that generates an axial magnetic field, in agreement with astrophysical observations.
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E. A. Pashitskii
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