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Kinetic Alfvén waves may be the key to the mystery of solar coronal heating
Geometry of obliquely propagating Alfvén waves. This schematic diagram shows the fitted geometry of a KAW in a circular cross-section solar flux tube loop of height h and radius a. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-77975-6 Saeed Ayaz, a researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), published a paper in Scientific Reports based on a first-of-its-kind study examining…
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New AI model of plasma heating leads to important modifications to computer code used in fusion research
1) and (b) WEST (i.e., fundamental resonance). is shown. (for hydrogen). Credit: Fusion (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ad645d” width=”800″ height=”437″/> Balanced configuration used for (a) NSTX database and (b) WEST database. Corresponding to shots 138 506 and 56 898 respectively. On the left, the magnetic equilibrium is shown with the highlighted LCFS (red) and the surface wall facing the plasma (black). On…
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