William Matthaeus
William Henry Matthaeus (* around 1950) is an American astro and plasma physicist.
biography
Matthaeus graduated from Philadelphia School in 1968 and studied physics and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship from the Mayor of Philadelphia with a bachelor's degree in 1973. He received an MA in physics in 1975 from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia and in 1977 a Master of Science in physics from the College of William and Mary , where he received his PhD in plasma physics in 1979 under David Campbell Montgomery ( Nonlinear Evolution of the Magnetohydrodynamic Sheet Pinch ). He is Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware , where he has taught since 1983 and is at the Bartol Research Institute.
He deals with plasma physics (turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with numerical simulation, kinetic theory) with astrophysical applications (such as the solar wind and its fluctuations). He is involved in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment and, since 2004, has been a major contributor to the Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 to study the sun's corona . Since 2016 he has been director of NASA's Delaware Space Grant .
In the 1980s he applied the Lattice-Boltzmann method in magnetohydrodynamics, and in 1992 he published a much-cited paper on the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equation using the Lattice-Boltzmann method.
For 2019 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for pioneering research on the nature of turbulence in space plasmas and astrophysical plasmas, which led to important advances in the understanding of particle transport, dissipation of turbulence energy and magnetic reconnection (laudatory speech). In 1985 he received the James B. MacElwane Award from the American Geophysical Union and became its Fellow.
Fonts (selection)
Except for the works cited in the footnotes.
- with ML Goldstein: Measurement of the rugged invariants of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 87, 1982, pp. 6011-6028
- with JV Shebalin, D. Montgomery: Anisotropy in MHD turbulence due to a mean magnetic field , Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 29, 1983, pp. 525-547
- with SL Lamkin: Turbulent magnetic reconnection , Physics of Fluids, Volume 29, 1986, pp. 2513-2534
- with S. Chen, H. Chen. D. Martinez: Lattice Boltzmann model for simulation of magnetohydrodynamics , Physical Review Letters, Volume 67, 1991, p. 3776
- with JW Bieber u. a .: Proton and electron mean free paths: The Palmer consensus revisited , The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 420, 1994, pp. 294-306
- with ML Goldstein, DA Roberts: Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind , Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 33, 1995, pp. 283-325
- with JW Bieber, W. Wanner: Dominant two ‐ dimensional solar wind turbulence with implications for cosmic ray transport , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 101, 1996, pp. 2511-2522
- with RJ Leamon u. a .: Observational constraints on the dynamics of the interplanetary magnetic field dissipation range , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 103, 1998, pp. 4775-4787
- with Ye Zhou, P. Dmitruk; Colloquium: Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and time scales in astrophysical and space plasmas , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 76, 2004, p. 1015
- with S. Servidio, P. Dmitruk; Depression of nonlinearity in decaying isotropic MHD turbulence , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 100, 2008, p. 095005.
- with P. Dmitruk: Low-frequency 1 ∕ f fluctuations in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence , Phys. Rev. E, Volume 76, 2007, p. 036305
- with GP Zank, CW Smith, S. Oughton: Turbulence, spatial transport, and heating of the solar wind , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 82, 1999, p. 3444
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Matthaeus in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Steven Hoffman, Dr. William Matthaeus, Unidel professor of physics and astronomy, University of Delaware , Newark Life, September 28, 2018
- ^ H. Chen, S. Chen, WH Matthaeus: Recovery of the Navier-Stokes equations using a lattice-gas Boltzmann method, Phys. Rev. A, Volume 45, 1992, R5339
- ↑ Laudation: For pioneering research into the nature of turbulence in space and astrophysical plasmas, which has led to major advances in understanding particle transport, dissipation of turbulent energy, and magnetic reconnection , Maxwell Prize 2019, APS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthew, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matthaeus, William Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astro and plasma physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1950 |