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Jul 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apj...306..730h&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 306, July 15, 1986, p. 730-739.
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Plasma Dynamics, Solar Corona, Viscosity, Boltzmann Transport Equation, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Solar Electrons, Solar Protons, Stress Tensors
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A general discussion of the dominant terms in the stress tensor in a magnetized plasma such as the solar corona is presented. The importance of dissipative terms such as electrical resistivity, heat conduction, and interspecies collisions is assessed. For average coronal conditions, the proton stress tensor is found to reduce to the dominant terms in the classical expression for the viscous stress. The classical expression can fail in the transition region, however. In the diffusion region of reconnection, classical viscosity will be appropriate if the resistivity is very large, so that the diffusion region is broad, but in that case the viscous heating is small compared to the resistive heating. On the other hand, the more general expression for the stress tensor is required if the diffusion region is thin; the stress tensor will be important in this case. The electron stress tensor is also considered, and it is shown how the classical expression for electron viscosity can fail in the transition region and lower corona.
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