The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory
In this review we will focus on a topic of fundamental importance for both astrophysics and plasma physics, namely the occurrence of large-amplitude low-frequency fluctuations of the fields that describe the plasma state. This subject will be treated within the context of the expanding solar wind an...
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| description | In this review we will focus on a topic of fundamental importance for both astrophysics and plasma physics, namely the occurrence of large-amplitude low-frequency fluctuations of the fields that describe the plasma state. This subject will be treated within the context of the expanding solar wind and the most meaningful advances in this research field will be reported emphasizing the results obtained in the past decade or so. As a matter of fact, Helios inner heliosphere and Ulysses' high latitude observations, recent multi-spacecrafts measurements in the solar wind (Cluster four satellites) and new numerical approaches to the problem, based on the dynamics of complex systems, brought new important insights which helped to better understand how turbulent fluctuations behave in the solar wind. In particular, numerical simulations within the realm of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence theory unraveled what kind of physical mechanisms are at the basis of turbulence generation and energy transfer across the spectral domain of the fluctuations. In other words, the advances reached in these past years in the investigation of solar wind turbulence now offer a rather complete picture of the phenomenological aspect of the problem to be tentatively presented in a rather organic way. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f230def09de4d64a83e39d51ca4a2962023-09-03T05:49:36ZengSpringerLiving Reviews in Solar Physics1614-49612013-05-0110210.12942/lrsp-2013-2The Solar Wind as a Turbulence LaboratoryVincenzo CarboneRoberto BrunoIn this review we will focus on a topic of fundamental importance for both astrophysics and plasma physics, namely the occurrence of large-amplitude low-frequency fluctuations of the fields that describe the plasma state. This subject will be treated within the context of the expanding solar wind and the most meaningful advances in this research field will be reported emphasizing the results obtained in the past decade or so. As a matter of fact, Helios inner heliosphere and Ulysses' high latitude observations, recent multi-spacecrafts measurements in the solar wind (Cluster four satellites) and new numerical approaches to the problem, based on the dynamics of complex systems, brought new important insights which helped to better understand how turbulent fluctuations behave in the solar wind. In particular, numerical simulations within the realm of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence theory unraveled what kind of physical mechanisms are at the basis of turbulence generation and energy transfer across the spectral domain of the fluctuations. In other words, the advances reached in these past years in the investigation of solar wind turbulence now offer a rather complete picture of the phenomenological aspect of the problem to be tentatively presented in a rather organic way.http://www.livingreviews.org/lrsp-2013-2Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)Solar windDynamical systemsNonlinear phenomenaInterplanetary spaceTurbulence |
| spellingShingle | Vincenzo Carbone Roberto Bruno The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory Living Reviews in Solar Physics Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Solar wind Dynamical systems Nonlinear phenomena Interplanetary space Turbulence |
| title | The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory |
| title_full | The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory |
| title_fullStr | The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory |
| title_short | The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory |
| title_sort | solar wind as a turbulence laboratory |
| topic | Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Solar wind Dynamical systems Nonlinear phenomena Interplanetary space Turbulence |
| url | http://www.livingreviews.org/lrsp-2013-2 |
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