Restrictions on radial magnetic field and flow solutions for the solar wind

✍ Scribed by M. S. Gussenhoven; R. L. Carovillano

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 383 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00153451

✦ Synopsis

In Parker's original model, the solar wind is represented as a spherically symmetric hydrodynamic flow. The velocity is radially directed and decoupled from the magnetic field. The simple extension of this model to include a dependence on the polar angle, 0, is shown to be invalid for radial flow and radial magnetic field. This work demonstrates how ad hoc symmetry conditions imposed to simplify a non-linear problem can be incompatible with the basic hydromagnetic equations.