The Open Astronomy Journal
2009, 2 : 16-18Published online 2009 February 26. DOI: 10.2174/1874381100902010016
Publisher ID: TOAAJ-2-16
Comment on Propagation and Dissipation of Alfvén Waves in Coronal Holes
School of Physical Sciences,
S.R.T.M. University, Nanded 431 606, India.
ABSTRACT
Dwivedi and Srivastava [1] (DS) investigated the propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in coronal holes after accounting for the viscosity and magnetic diffusivity. After solving a set of equations with the help of computer results are reported by them. We find that the same set of equations can be solved even analytically. Since DS have not reported any values of physical parameters used by them except their expressions, we could not trace out the source of error. One reason for the difference in our results and those of DS can be assigned to some mistakes in their computer program or to the values of parameters used.