Zdzislaw E. Musielak

Zdzislaw E. Musielak is a Professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the recipient of the Humboldt Prize for his work on physical processes in the solar and stellar atmospheres. Dr. Musielak received his undergraduate education at the A. Mickiewicz University, Poland, and his graduate education at the University of Gdansk, Poland, where he received his Ph.D. degree in physics, in 1980. For his dissertation and other graduate research, Dr. Musielak received two awards from the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1980 to 1983, he was an Assistant Professor of astrophysics at the University of Gdansk. He left Poland in 1982 and spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After arriving to the United States in 1983, Dr. Musielak worked as a Researcher at MIT for 3 years, and then for 3 more years as a Senior NRC Associate at NASA MSFC in Huntsville, Alabama. From 1989 to 1999, he was a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). In 1999, he joined the Faculty of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) as a Professor of Physics and was appointed the Director of the UTA Astronomy Program one year later. Dr. Musielak is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists (Humboldt Prize) received in 1997 and additional Humboldt Followup Research Award received in 2005. His research has focused on the generation and propagation of MHD and plasma waves in circumstances ranging from the solar-terrestrial environment to the physics of nondegenerate and degenerate stars. He also works on the effects of extrasolar planets on their host stars, orbital stability in extrasolar planetary systems, and routes to chaos in dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom. Dr. Musielak’s current research interests involve the origin of dark matter and dark energy.

Biography Updated on 18 September 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Standard and non-standard Lagrangians for dissipative dynamical systems with variable coefficients
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 41, no. 5, p. 055205, 2008
  2. Generalized Lorenz models and their routes to chaos. I. Energy-conserving vertical mode truncations
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 1038–1052, 2007
  3. Generalized Lorenz models and their routes to chaos. II. Energy-conserving horizontal mode truncations
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 747–756, 2007
  4. Generalized Lorenz models and their routes to chaos. III. Energy-conserving horizontal and vertical mode truncations
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1064–1070, 2007
  5. Method to derive Lagrangian and Hamiltonian for a nonlinear dynamical system with variable coefficients
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2007
  6. Conditions for Propagation of Torsional Waves in Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes
    Solar Physics, vol. 246, no. 1, pp. 133–143, 2007
  7. Cutoff-free Propagation of Torsional Alfven Waves along Thin Magnetic Flux Tubes
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 659, no. 1, pp. 650–654, 2007
  8. Acoustic Heating of the Solar Chromosphere: Present Indeed and Locally Dominant
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 657, no. 1, pp. L57–L60, 2007
  9. Method to determine cutoff frequencies for acoustic waves propagating in nonisothermal media
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 3, 2006
  10. Fractals [Complex Geometry, Patterns, and Scaling in Nature and Society], vol. 13, no. 1, p. 19, 2005
  11. Atmospheric Oscillations in White Dwarfs: A New Indicator of Chromospheric Activity
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 630, no. 1, pp. 506–510, 2005
  12. Fast Method for Calculating Chromospheric Ca ii and Mg ii Radiative Losses
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 631, no. 2, pp. 1113–1119, 2005
  13. On the Validity of Acoustically Heated Chromosphere Models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 631, no. 2, pp. L155–L158, 2005
  14. Chaos and routes to chaos in coupled Duffing oscillators with multiple degrees of freedom
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 907–922, 2005
  15. Quantum action principle and base operators for bosons and fermions
    Physics Letters B, vol. 626, no. 1-4, pp. 256–261, 2005
  16. Stability of planetary orbits in binary systems
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 434, no. 1, pp. 355–364, 2005
  17. Torsional magnetic tube waves in stellar convection zones
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 409, no. 3, pp. 1085–1095, 2003
  18. Chandra Observations of Magnetic White Dwarfs and Their Theoretical Implications
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 593, no. 1, pp. 481–485, 2003
  19. Orbital Stability of Terrestrial Planets inside the Habitable Zones of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 572, no. 2, pp. 1024–1030, 2002
  20. On the Generation of Flux-Tube Waves in Stellar Convection Zones. IV. Longitudinal Wave Energy Spectra and Fluxes for Stars with Nonsolar Metallicities
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 573, no. 1, pp. 418–424, 2002
  21. Wave Heating and Range of Stellar Activity in Late-Type Dwarfs
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 559, no. 2, pp. L167–L170, 2001
  22. On the Generation of Flux-Tube Waves in Stellar Convection Zones. III. Longitudinal Tube Wave-Energy Spectra and Fluxes for Late-Type Stars
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 541, no. 1, pp. 410–417, 2000
  23. Two-Component Theoretical Chromosphere Models for K Dwarfs of Different Magnetic Activity: Exploring the Ca ii Emission–Stellar Rotation Relationship
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 522, no. 2, pp. 1053–1068, 1999
  24. Self-consistent and Time-dependent Magnetohydrodynamic Chromosphere Models for Magnetically Active Stars
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 493, no. 2, pp. L117–L120, 1998
  25. Self-consistent and Time-dependent Solar Wind Models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 474, no. 2, pp. L143–L145, 1997
  26. Solar Physics, vol. 174, no. 1/2, pp. 341–355, 1997
  27. Fractals [Complex Geometry, Patterns, and Scaling In Nature and Society], vol. 4, no. 4, p. 533, 1996
  28. On the origin of 'dividing lines' for late-type giants and supergiants
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 442, p. L25, 1995
  29. On the Generation of Flux-Tube Waves in Stellar Convection Zones. II. Improved Treatment of Longitudinal Tube Wave Generation
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 448, p. 865, 1995
  30. Klein-Gordon Equation and the Local Critical Frequency for Alfven Waves Propagating in an Isothermal Atmosphere
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 452, p. 434, 1995
  31. On sound generation by turbulent convection: A new look at old results
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 423, p. 474, 1994
  32. On Dirac equations for linear magnetoacoustic waves propagating in an isothermal atmosphere
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 427, p. 919, 1994
  33. The cutoff frequency for fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic waves in an isothermal atmosphere with a uniform horizontal magnetic field
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 409, p. 450, 1993
  34. A new way to convert Alfven waves into heat in solar coronal holes - Intermittent magnetic levitation
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 397, p. L55, 1992
  35. Klein–Gordon equation and reflection of Alfve´n waves in nonuniform media
    Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 13, 1992
  36. Magnetic confinement, Alfven wave reflection, and the origins of X-ray and mass-loss 'dividing lines' for late-type giants and supergiants
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 372, p. L91, 1991
  37. Alfven wave trapping, network microflaring, and heating in solar coronal holes
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 378, p. 347, 1991
  38. Reflection and trapping of Alfven waves in a spherically symmetric stellar atmosphere
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 350, p. 309, 1990
  39. Conditions for vertical propagation of magnetoacoustic waves in an isothermal atmosphere
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 351, p. 287, 1990