Abstract

A nonlinear mechanism for the damping of fast magnetoacoustic wave in the solar corona is studied. It is shown that the nonlinear coupling of finite-amplitude fast waves to small-scale Alfven waves can be much faster than damping mechanisms involving classic transport coefficients.

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