Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Boshuizen, Christopher R..
A group of young engineers working at NASA have been trying to show that participating in real science and reaching space isnt as expensive or as difficult as commonly assumed. Our current mission: sending a phone into space.
Langmuir-like waves in the foreshock of Earth are characteristically bursty and irregular, and are the subject of a number of recent studies. Averaged over the foreshock, it is observed that the probability distribution is power-law P(bar)(log E) in the wave field E with the bar denoting this averaging over position, In this paper it is shown that stochastic growth theory (SGT) can explain a power-law spatially-averaged distributions P(bar)(log E), when the observed power-law variations of the mean and standard deviation of log E with position are combined with the log normal statistics predicted by SGT at each location.