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Solutions of the two-fluid solar wind equations: Adiabatic and conduction dominated solutions

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The equations governing the two-fluid spherically symmetric models of the solar wind have been solved numerically for a wide range of base conditions. As predicted from an asymptotic analysis we find a whole domain of solutions which are asymptotically adiabatic with the proton and electron temperatures tending to equality and varying like r - 4/3. In these 4/3 solutions the electron and proton heat conduction is asymptotically negligible and if it is neglected the resulting equations can be integrated analytically and shown to have the 4/3, 4/3 behaviour.

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  1. Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, E 1 4NS, London, England

    D. P. Rowse & I. W. Roxburgh

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Proceedings of the 14th ESLAB Symposium on Physics of Solar Variations, 16–19 September 1980, Scheveningen, The Netherlands.

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Rowse, D.P., Roxburgh, I.W. Solutions of the two-fluid solar wind equations: Adiabatic and conduction dominated solutions. Sol Phys 74, 169–177 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151287

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