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Roberto Bruno - Turbulence in the Solar Wind - 9783319434391 - V9783319434391
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Turbulence in the Solar Wind

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Description for Turbulence in the Solar Wind paperback. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics. Num Pages: 278 pages, 72 black & white illustrations, 55 colour illustrations, 100 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PGS; PHDF; PHFP; PHVG; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.

This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective. It argues that the interplanetary medium offers the best opportunity to directly study turbulent fluctuations in collisionless plasmas.  In fact, during expansion, the solar wind evolves towards a state characterized by large-amplitude fluctuations in all observed parameters, which resembles, at least at large scales, the well-known hydrodynamic turbulence.

This text starts with historical references to past observations and experiments on turbulent flows. It then introduces the Navier-Stokes equations for a magnetized plasma whose low-frequency turbulence evolution is described within the framework of the MHD approximation. ... Read more

The problem of self-similar and anomalous fluctuations in the solar wind is then addressed using tools provided by dynamical system theory and discussed on the basis of available models and observations. The book highlights observations of Yaglom’s law in solar wind turbulence, which is one of the most important findings in fully developed turbulence and directly related to the long-lasting and still unsolved problem of solar wind plasma heating.

Lastly, it includes a short chapter dedicated to the kinetic range of fluctuations, which has recently been receiving more attention from the space plasma community, since this is inherently related to turbulent energy dissipation and consequent plasma heating. It particularly focuses on the nature and role of the fluctuations populating this frequency range, and discusses several model predictions and recent observational findings in this context.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319434391
SKU
V9783319434391
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