UAH Plasma Researcher Follows Up First-of-Its-Kind Study of Alfvén Waves with Groundbreaking New Findings, Possibly Key to Mystery of Solar Corona Heating

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Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén combined the mathematics of fluid mechanics and electromagnetism in 1942 to predict plasmas could support wave-like variation in the magnetic field, a phenomenon now known as Alfvén waves.

« UAH Plasma Researcher Follows Up First-of-Its-Kind Study of Alfvén Waves with Groundbreaking New Findings, Possibly Key to Mystery of Solar Corona Heating

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Syed Ayaz, a graduate research assistant in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR).

« UAH Plasma Researcher Follows Up First-of-Its-Kind Study of Alfvén Waves with Groundbreaking New Findings, Possibly Key to Mystery of Solar Corona Heating

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