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Alfvén wave

plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective tension on the magnetic field lines
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Alfvén wave

Summary

Alfvén wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (202 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Alfvén wave's video is recorded as Alfven-wave-double-layer.gif[2].
  • Hannes Alfvén is named after Alfvén wave[3].
  • Alfvén wave's GND ID is recorded as 4206066-7[4].
  • Alfvén wave's subclass of is recorded as waves in plasmas[5].
  • Alfvén wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03nsdd[6].
  • Alfvén wave's facet of is recorded as magnetic field[7].
  • Alfvén wave's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0002511[8].
  • Alfvén wave's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000300950[9].
  • Alfvén wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Alfven-wave[10].
  • Alfvén wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/fast-Alfven-wave[11].
  • Alfvén wave's studied by is recorded as magnetohydrodynamics[12].
  • Alfvén wave's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1815501[13].
  • Alfvén wave's Quora topic ID is recorded as Alfvén-Wave[14].
  • Alfvén wave's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as alfven-waves[15].
  • Alfvén wave's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 23[16].
  • Alfvén wave's World of Physics ID is recorded as AlfvenWave[17].
  • Alfvén wave's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[18].
  • Alfvén wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776906135[19].
  • Alfvén wave's IEV number is recorded as 121-14-08[20].
  • Alfvén wave's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776906135[21].
  • Alfvén wave's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as ona-dalfven[22].

Why It Matters

Alfvén wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (202 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Hannes Alfvén magnetohydrodynamics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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