Decoding the selfgenerated wave fluctuations and their role in the formation of the solar wind. KU Leuven
This project aims to clarify one challenging aspect in the process of formation of the solar wind, namely, the truly remarkable equipartition and the closely related minimum-energy conditions for the magnetic field energy and the kinetic energy of plasma particles, which is not fully understood nor explained theoretically or numerically. At high kinetic energies (large-beta plasma regime), confinement of the solar wind plasma to small ...