such as kinetic and inertial Alfvén waves emerge in certain plasma regimes. The characteristic speed of these waves—the Alfvén velocity—depends on the magnetic...

The writer was Inger Alfvén and is well known for her work in Sweden. The composer Hugo Alfvén was Hannes Alfvén's uncle. Alfvén studied the history of...

isotropically with the Alfvén speed, ω2 f = k2v2 A. In this limit, the fast mode is sometimes referred to as a compressional Alfvén wave. When the wavevector...

field equation Alfvén wave, in plasma physics Atmospheric wave, a periodic disturbance in the fields of atmospheric variables Fir wave, a forest configuration...

to the radially decreasing Alfvén wave phase speed. This defines a closed, nonspherical surface, referred to as the Alfvén critical surface, below which...

coronal holes. The Alfvén surface is the boundary separating the corona from the solar wind defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale...

what are now referred to as Alfvén waves. Alfvén initially referred to these waves as "electromagnetic–hydrodynamic waves"; however, in a later paper...

local Alfvén speed. It is used in plasma physics, where it is analogous to the Mach number but based on Alfvén waves rather than sound waves. Alfvén and...

Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (1867–1940), commonly known as Marie Krøyer, Danish painter, wife of Hugo Alfvén wave, a type of magnetohydrodynamic wave, named after...

kinetic Alfvén wave. Hasegawa and Chen introduced the concept of the kinetic Alfven wave to illustrate the microscopic process of the Alfven wave heating...

{\displaystyle v_{s}} - plasma "sound" speed, v A {\displaystyle v_{A}} - plasma Alfvén speed (The subscript 0 denotes the static part of the electric or magnetic...

magnetic Reynolds numbers. It is named after Hannes Alfvén, who put the idea forward in 1943. Alfvén's theorem implies that the magnetic topology of a fluid...

heating via resonant absorption within Alfvén wave continuous spectrum. They discovered the Kinetic Alfvén wave, which resolves the logarithmic singularity...

reconnection involves plasma flows at a substantial fraction of the Alfvén wave speed, which is the fundamental speed for mechanical information flow...

the relative importance depending on parameters. Waves in plasmas Sound Alfvén wave Magnetosonic wave Various patents and articles related to fusion, IEC...

(t)soo-NAH-mee, (t)suu-; from Japanese: 津波, lit. 'harbour wave', pronounced [tsɯnami]) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large...

expeditions. The Alfvén surface is the boundary separating the corona from the solar wind defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale...

are equal. It is named after Hannes Alfvén, and is also called Alfvén critical surface, Alfvén point, or Alfvén radius. In 2018, the Parker Solar Probe...

A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...

Thomas, T; Pfrommer, C (25 January 2019). "Cosmic-ray hydrodynamics: Alfvén-wave regulated transport of cosmic rays". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

auroral features are also created by electrons accelerated by dispersive Alfvén waves. At small wavelengths, transverse to the background magnetic field (comparable...

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so-called Alfvén wave, a physical principle within magnetohydrodynamics that was described first in 1942 by the later Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén and which...

provides wave modes such as Alfvén waves which are often faster than pure sound waves: if turbulent speeds are supersonic but below the Alfvén wave speed...

where c s {\displaystyle c_{s}} is the speed of the ion acoustic wave (or the Alfvén wave, if the magnetic pressure is higher than the plasma pressure)....

composer Hugo Alfvén who had also been taken by her beauty. The couple had a child, Marie divorced Krøyer and moved to Sweden with Alfvén. They married...

micrometres. Importantly, it also implies that the Alfvén wavelength is a few meters, and in fact shear Alfvén waves are routinely observed in the LAPD. This is...

stress tensor Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise and vibration Alfvén wave Bellan, Paul Murray (2006). Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. Cambridge:...

bursts) and ultraviolet (UV) spectra. Alfvén wave Magnetohydrodynamics Moreton wave Rankine–Hugoniot conditions Shock wave H. E. Petschek, Magnetic Field Annihilation...

timescale of an Alfvén wave crossing to the timescale of resistive diffusion. It is a special case of the magnetic Reynolds number when the Alfvén velocity is...