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William H. Matthaeus

Researcher at University of Delaware

Publications -  546
Citations -  34936

William H. Matthaeus is an academic researcher from University of Delaware. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solar wind & Magnetohydrodynamics. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 515 publications receiving 31310 citations. Previous affiliations of William H. Matthaeus include University of Calabria & University of California, Riverside.

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Variance anisotropy in kinetic plasmas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the question of whether a kinetic plasma spontaneously generates and sustains parallel variances when initiated with only perpendicular variance and find that parallel variance grows and saturates at about 5% of the perpendicular variance in a few nonlinear times irrespective of the Reynolds number.
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Current Sheets, Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere. Part II: Theoretical Aspects

TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing theoretical paradigms of the structure of the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field is presented, with particular attention to the fine structure and stability of current sheets.
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Turbulent dissipation in the solar wind and corona

TL;DR: In this article, anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) cascades are used to explain interplanetary and coronal turbulence and heating, which are reviewed here.
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Numerical simulation of the generation of turbulence from cometary ion pick-up

TL;DR: In this article, the equations of incompressible MHD were solved using a two-dimensional 256 x 256 mode spectral method code to simulate this spectral evolution as an inertial range turbulent cascade.
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Large-scale behavior and statistical equilibria in rotating flows.

TL;DR: Long-time properties of the ideal dynamics of three-dimensional flows, in the presence or not of an imposed solid-body rotation and with or without helicity (velocity-vorticity correlation) are examined.