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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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Evidence for Inhomogeneous Heating in the Solar Wind
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to probe the nature of turbulence heating and found that significant inhomogeneous heating occurs in the solar wind, connected with current sheets that are dynamically generated by MHD turbulence.
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Colloquium: Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and time scales in astrophysical and space plasmas
TL;DR: In this article, fundamental aspects of MHD turbulence, including spectral energy transfer, non-locality, and anisotropy, are discussed based on the concepts of sweeping of the small scales by a large-scale field, which in MHD occurs due to effects of counterpropagating waves, as well as the local straining processes that occur due to nonlinear couplings.
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Spatial correlation of solar-wind turbulence from two-point measurements
William H. Matthaeus,Sergio Dasso,James M. Weygand,L. J. Milano,Charles W. Smith,Margaret G. Kivelson +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, magnetic field correlation analysis, using for the first time only proper two-point, single time measurements, provides a key step in unraveling the space-time structure of interplanetary turbulence.
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Turbulence, spatial transport, and heating of the solar wind
TL;DR: In this paper, a phenomenological theory describes the radial evolution of plasma turbulence in the solar wind from 1 to 50 astronomical units, including a simple closure for local anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, spatial transport, and driving by large-scale shear and pickup ions.
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Who Needs Turbulence
William H. Matthaeus,Marco Velli +1 more
TL;DR: The significant influences of turbulence in neutral fluid hydrodynamics are well accepted but the potential for analogous effects in space and astrophysical plasmas is less widely recognized.