Turbulent Heating and Anisotropy in the Solar Wind A Numerical Study /

• Main Author: Montagud-Camps, Victor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Solar system.; Space sciences.; Astrophysics.; Mathematical physics.; Solar and Heliospheric Physics .; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Theoretical Astrophysics.

This book presents two important new findings. First, it demonstrates from first principles that turbulent heating offers an explanation for the non-adiabatic decay of proton temperature in solar wind. Until now, this was only proved with reduced or phenomenological models. Second, the book demonstr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Solar Wind
• Plasma description
• Turbulence
• Solar Wind turbulence
• Plan of this thesis
• The Maltese Cross revisited
• Parameters and initial conditions
• Defining spectral properties in EBM simulations
• Results
• Discussion
• Can the Maltese Cross heat?
• Paper ApJ 2018: "Turbulent Heating between 0.2 and 1 au: A Numerical Study"
• Heating fast winds
• Conclusions and future work
• Conclusions
• Future work: Anisotropy temperature description
• Appendix.