Solar Wind Turbulence: New Advances from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Space Missions
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 2852
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar wind turbulence; kinetic theory of space plasmas; coronal heating and acceleration processes; data analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Turbulence is a universal phenomenon observed everywhere in Nature (from atmospheric and ocean fluid flows on Earth to space plasmas) and every day in ordinary life. Nevertheless, it is the last unsolved problem of classical physics (Feynman R. P., 2005). The solar wind—a turbulent plasma flow emitted by the Sun and expanding into the heliosphere—is the only and the best available laboratory to study turbulence in an astrophysical plasma. Recent launches of the Parker Solar Probe (which will approach the Sun closer than ever before) and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft (which will study the Sun with a complete suite of remote-sensing and in-situ instruments) will significantly advance our understanding of space plasma turbulence, allowing us to tackle still-unanswered questions spanning from macrostructure to microphysics, such as: How and where does turbulence originate? Which are the physical mechanisms responsible for the energy transfer from large to small scales in the turbulent cascade? How is energy dissipated to heat the plasma? This Special Issue aims to collect research papers on pioneering observations which will help to shed light on these fundamental and still unanswered questions in space plasma physics.
Dr. Daniele Telloni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar wind
- turbulence
- space plasmas
- heliosphere
- magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
- space vehicles
