Flute and kink instabilities in a dynamically twisted flux tube with anisotropic plasma viscosity

ABSTRACT Magnetic flux tubes such as those in the solar corona are subject to a number of instabilities. Important among them is the kink instability that plays a central part in the nanoflare theory of coronal heating, and for this reason in numerical simulations, it is usually induced by tightly c...

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