Name: MHD Structures, Waves and Turbulence in the Solar Wind
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Author: Eckart Marsch
ISBN: 9780792333456

MHD Structures, Waves and Turbulence in the Solar Wind

Eckart Marsch

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This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of recent observational and theoretical results on solar wind structures and fluctuations and magnetohydrodynamic waves and turbulence, preference being given to phenomena in the inner heliosphere. Emphasis is placed on the progress made in the past decade in the understanding of the nature and origin of especially small-scale, compressible and incompressible fluctuations. Turbulence models describing the spatial transport and spectral transfer of the fluctuations in the inner heliosphere are discussed. Intermittency of solar wind fluctuations and their statistical distributions are investigated. Studies of the heating and acceleration effects of the turbulence on the background wind are critically surveyed. Finally, open questions concerning the origin, nature and evolution of the fluctuations are listed, and perspectives for future research are outlined.
The book is for graduate students and researchers in the field. Other target groups are scientists and professionals interested in space plasma physics and/or MHD turbulence.

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Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Data Analysis and Basic Observational Results.- 3. Nature and Origin of Incompressible MHD Fluctuations.- 4. Spectral Transfer and Spatial Transport Theory of Incompressible MHD Fluctuations in Inhomogeneous Flow.- 5. Nature and Origin of Compressible MHD Fluctuations.- 6. Numerical Simulations and Flow Instabilities.- 7. The Random Distributions of Parameters of Solar Wind Fluctuations.- 8. Intermittency of the Solar Wind Fluctuations.- 9. The Heating and Acceleration Effects on the Solar Wind.- 10. Summary and Prospect.

Notă biografică

was Eckart Marsch is a retired Senior Research Scientist (C3) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), retired Extraordinary Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Göttingen und retired Senior Research Scientist at the IEAP of the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, 2012. He studied physics at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Berlin and Kiel. He was awarded Dipl.-Phys. (theoretical condensed matter physics), University of Kiel, 1973 Dr. rer. nat. (theoretical condensed matter physics), University of Kiel, 1976 Habilitation (astronomy and astrophysics), University of Göttingen, 1990 Call for full professorship (C4) for Extraterrestrial Physics at the University of Kiel, 1999 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2009 Hannes Alfven Medal of the European Geosciences Union, 2018 He was research staff at the MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, 1976-1980, research staff and senior scientist (C3) at the Max Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Lindau, 1980-2004, and senior research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, 2004-2012 Lecturer and Co-editor of eight books and of four international scientific journals (1991-2015) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckart_Marsch). Ulrich von Kusserow studied physics and mathematics at the Clausthal University of Technology and astrophysics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. His Diploma thesis was on "Stationary spherical ¿-¿-dynamos and the Earth's magnetic field" He worked as a teacher of physics and mathematics and was chairman of the amateur astronomical Olbers Society e. V. Bremen. He worked at the Institute for Didactics of Physics at the University of Potsdam and was head of the advanced practical experiment "Observation of the Magnetic Sun" at the University of Bremen. He is a Lecturer and author (ulrich-von-kusserow.de)