Chaos and turbulence in solar wind
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Chaos and turbulence in solar wind
zbMATH Open document ID: 0896.76026
DOI: 10.1007/BF00644030
author: B. Buti
published in: Astrophysics and Space Science
publication date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: By means of techniques of nonlinear dynamical systems, we attempt to properly understand the turbulence in the solar wind, which is essentially a nonuniform streaming plasma consisting of hydrogen and a fraction of helium. We demonstrate that the observed large amplitude waves can generate solitary waves, which in turn, because of some propagating solar disturbance, can produce chaos in the medium. The chaotic fields thus generated can lead to anomalously large plasma heating and acceleration.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76F20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76X05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 85A30
zbMATH DE Number: 1077867
zbMATH Keywords: accelerated solitary waves
zbMATH Keywords: techniques of nonlinear dynamical systems
zbMATH Keywords: nonuniform streaming plasma
zbMATH Keywords: hydrogen
zbMATH Keywords: helium
zbMATH Keywords: large amplitude waves
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Nonlinear, dispersive, elliptically polarized Alfvén waves
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1077867