# Coronal loop transverse oscillations excited by different driver frequencies

## TL;DR

This study uses 3D MHD simulations to analyze how coronal loop transverse oscillations, driven at different frequencies, cause plasma heating and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability development, revealing the importance of temperature and plasma mixing.

## Contribution

It provides new insights into the resonance response, instability development, and heating distribution in coronal loops under various footpoint excitation frequencies.

## Key findings

- Resonant response enhances plasma heating at standing wave anti-nodes.
- Kelvin-Helmholtz instability develops at different heights depending on conditions.
- Hotter loops exhibit increased plasma temperature due to instability.

## Abstract

We analyse transverse oscillations of a coronal loop excited by continuous monoperiodic motions of the loop footpoint at different frequencies in the presence of gravity. Using the MPI-AMRVAC code, we perform three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations, considering the loop as a magnetic flux tube filled in with denser, hotter, and gravitationally stratified plasma. We show the resonant response of the loop to its external excitation and analyse the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at different heights. We also study the spatial distribution of plasma heating due to transverse oscillations along the loop. The positions of the maximum heating are in total agreement with those for the intensity of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and correspond to the standing wave anti-nodes in the resonant cases. The initial temperature configuration and plasma mixing effect appear to play a significant role in plasma heating by transverse footpoint motions. In particular, the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a hotter loop results in the enhancement of the mean plasma temperature in the domain.