A reexamination of two-fluid solar wind models

Details A reexamination of two-fluid solar wind models A reexamination of two-fluid solar wind models

Aug 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jgr....82.3213n&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Aug. 1, 1977, p. 3213-3222.

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

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Solar Protons, Solar Wind, Stellar Models, Two Fluid Models, Asymptotic Methods, Iterative Solution, Logarithms, Proton Energy, Solar Corona, Thermal Conductivity

Scientific paper

The two-fluid solar-wind equations have been solved by a method which is approximately 50 times faster than any previously developed, through the use of asymptotic expansions which are self-consistently iterated upon to find a solution that passes through the critical point. The energy assumptions in two-fluid solar-wind models are reexamined, and the conclusions are as follows: (1) proton thermal conduction may not be neglected, (2) the Coulomb logarithm must be calculated as a function of radius, and (3) the electron and proton temperatures at the base need not be equal, even when the time scale for energy exchange between the species is an order of magnitude smaller than the expansion time at the base. It is possible to reproduce reasonable quiet-time solar-wind parameters at 1 AU, but only if the proton temperature is approximately twice the electron temperature at 1 solar radius. This may indicate that extended proton heating is important in the outer solar corona. Winds with velocities at 1 AU of 450 km/s are generated without nonthermal energy deposition but require high proton temperatures as well as very low densities at the base. Higher-velocity solutions are not possible in a spherically symmetric geometry for reasonable particle fluxes at 1 AU, and it is suggested that these higher-velocity states probably require additional heating, acceleration mechanisms, or nonradial flow.

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