@article{890367c4054d4513be1bc9a7a951b47c,
title = "Preface",
author = "Shravan Hanasoge",
note = "Funding Information: The Sun{\textquoteright}s magnetic field directly affects Earth climate and space weather. The internal mechanism that governs the Sun{\textquoteright}s large-scale field reversals is a subject of great interest to dynamo theorists and astrophysicists. The properties of convection in the highly stratified environment of the solar convection zone provide insights in a parameter regime inaccessible to computation and laboratory experiment and are therefore of relevance to fluid mechanicians. Solar and stellar physics are very important branches of astronomy and astrophysics, whose study is enabled by substantial financial support from international space agencies. There have been some ten satellite missions in the fields of solar and stellar physics and the installation of a number of ground-based instruments over the past two decades, representing a substantial investment by the scientific community. As a consequence, high-quality observations of the Sun and stars are now abundantly available and so the burning questions now almost entirely concern accurate interpretation. It is in this backdrop that this monograph finds its relevance.",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
pages = "ix--x",
journal = "SpringerBriefs in Mathematics",
issn = "2191-8198",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
}