Magnetohydrodynamics Turbulence: Early Work

The Department of Physics invites you to a lecture entitled MHD Turbulence: Early Work by URB Scholar Visitor, Seshadri Sridhar, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.

Outline;
1. Introduction to Hydrodynamic Turbulence.
2. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Alfven Waves.
3. Early work on MHD turbulence:
a: The Iroshnikov-Kraichnan theory
b: The work of Montgomery and collaborators.
4. Plasma turbulence in the Interstellar Medium.

Seshadri Sridhar is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Raman Research Institute Bangalore, India.