In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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{\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...

events—nanoflares. Currently, it is unclear whether waves are an efficient heating mechanism. All waves except Alfvén waves have been found to dissipate or refract...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Alfvén waves. At small wavelengths transverse to the background magnetic field (comparable to the electron inertial length or ion gyroradius), Alfvén...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Retrieved 6 November 2011. Zakharov, V. E. (1972), "Collapse of Langmuir waves", Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 35: 908–914, Bibcode:1972JETP...

is thought that the active magnetic fields and strong solar wind of Alfvén waves of T Tauri stars are one means by which angular momentum gets transferred...

Dougherty, M. K. (2011). "Auroral hiss, electron beams and standing Alfvén wave currents near Saturn's moon Enceladus" (PDF). Geophysical Research Letters...

This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves). Eponym List of eponymous laws Waves Scientific phenomena named after people Truesdell, C...