The Origin of the Solar Wind
Ben Chandran
University of New Hampshire
November 5, 2007, 4PM, Steward N210
In this talk I will give a brief review of important historical
developments in our understanding of the solar wind and its
generation, as well as some of the key unsolved problems for current
research in this area. I will then focus on some problems relating to
the heating and acceleration of the solar corona and solar wind by
waves and turbulence. In particular, I will describe the paradox that
while observations seem to require substantial heating by
high-frequency waves, a large body of turbulence theory suggests that
most of the turbulent energy remains in fairly low-frequency
fluctuations. The last part of the talk will describe recent
developments in the theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence
theory that may resolve this paradox.
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