Alfvén wave heating and stability - Invited talk given at the International Workshop on Alfvén Waves in Honor of Prof. Hannes Alfvén, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 8 - 10, 1994
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In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective tension on the magnetic fie
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (alˈveːn; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (M