Physics – Space Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-26
Physics
Space Physics
To appear in the book entitled "The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere"
Scientific paper
From a broader perspective, the heliosphere and planetary magnetospheres provide a test bed to explore the plasma physics of the Universe. In particular, the underlying nonlinear coupling of different spatial and temporal scales plays a key role in determining the structure and dynamics of space plasmas and electromagnetic fields. Plasmas and fields exhibit both laminar and turbulent properties, corresponding to either well organized or disordered states, and the development of quantitative theoretical and analytical descriptions from physics based first principles is a profound challenge. Limited observations and complications introduced by geometry and physical parameters conspire to complicate the problem. Dimensionless scaling analysis and statistical methods are universally applied common approaches that allow for the application of related ideas to multiple physical problems. We discuss several examples of the interplay between the scales in a variety of space plasma environments, as exemplified in the presentations of the session \textit{From Micro- to Macro-scales in the Heliosphere and Magnetospheres.}
Lu Quan-Ming
Shaikh Dastgeer
Veselovsky Igor S.
Zank Gary P.
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