Macroscopic randomness in astrophysical plasmas: the legacy and vision of Ya. B. Zeldovich
Ya. B. Zeldovich
This collection contains reviews and research articles on topics of current and future interest broadly related to large-scale random phenomena in astrophysical plasmas. Zeldovich was active in this wide area of research, especially during the last years of his life. His interest resulted in a vigorous activity of his group in dynamo theory. It is not a coincidence that his last book is entitled "The Almighty Chance" (World Scientific, 1990).
To reflect the scope of Zeldovich's interests and contributions to science, the individual topics covered in the Special Issue can be broad and not necessarily connected directly with Zeldovich's specific work interpreted narrowly. The editors believe that it would be important to focus on the growth points that are likely to frame future research. Zeldovich was famous for his deep knowledge of an incredibly wide range of areas and his ability to cross-pollinate them. The editors' hope is that the Special Issue papers will look into the future rather than into the past, and breach fruitfully the boundaries of narrow branches within mathematics, physics and astrophysics. The list of topics included will be broad, to reflect the fundamental nature of plasma physics, and include cosmological plasmas, structure formation in the Universe, magnetohydrodynamics of random flows and dynamo theory, shock waves in collisional and collisionless plasmas, relativistic plasmas, etc.
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Special issue: Macroscopic randomness in astrophysical plasmas: The legacy and vision of Ya. B. Zeldovich
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Conservation law of turbulent dispersion
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- 24 November 2014, 395810201
Intermittency of magnetic field turbulence: Astrophysical applications of in-situ observations
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Intermittency and random matrices
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- 29 April 2015, 395810402
Self-organized braiding in solar coronal loops
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Regular and chaotic dynamics of non-spherical bodies. Zeldovich’s pancakes and emission of very long gravitational waves
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Fluctuation dynamos at finite correlation times using renewing flows
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Saturation of Zeldovich stretch–twist–fold map dynamos
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- Journal of Plasma Physics / Volume 81 / Issue 5 / October 2015
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- 13 July 2015, 395810503
Turbulent fluxes of entropy and internal energy in temperature stratified flows
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- 03 August 2015, 395810504
Motivation and challenge to capture both large-scale and local transport in next generation accretion theory
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- 20 August 2015, 395810505
The electromotive force in multi-scale flows at high magnetic Reynolds number
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- Journal of Plasma Physics / Volume 81 / Issue 6 / 2015
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- 21 September 2015, 395810601
Generalized self-similarity of intermittent plasma turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas
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The galactic dynamo and superbubbles
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Corrigendum
Motivation and challenge to capture both large scale and local transport in next generation accretion theory – CORRIGENDUM
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- Journal of Plasma Physics / Volume 83 / Issue 4 / 2017
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