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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.
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. (1981). Solutions of the Two-Fluid Solar Wind Equations: Adiabatic and Conduction Dominated Solutions. In: Domingo, V. (eds) Physics of Solar Variations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9633-1_21
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