Shock Wave Interactions with Viscosity Observed after the Coronal Mass Ejection Activities Occurred on December 18, 1999 and April 4, 2001
Huseyin Cavus *
Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17100, Canakkale, Turkey
Aysel Ibrahim Karafistan
Faculty of Maritime Management, University of Kyrenia, Sehit Yahya Bakir Sokak, Karakum-Girne, Post Box 74, Kyrenia TRNC, Cyprus
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The release of magnetic field and plasma from the solar atmosphere (i.e. coronal mass ejections-CMEs and solar wind) resulting from solar magnetic activity can produce shock waves and geomagnetic storms. Shock waves are known to occur while the solar ejected particles alter from the supersonic to the subsonic regime. Especially, in the supersonic case for the flow of compressible gas interaction of shock waves with viscosity plays a key role for space weather broadcasts. Therefore, the major objective of this paper was to search the outcome of viscosity in the shocks subsequently detected after the CMEs occurred on December 18, 1999 and April 4, 2001 by using the previous modelling study of [1].
Keywords: Coronal mass ejection, viscosity, shock waves, reynolds number