Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.1571s&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, Feb. 1, 1992, p. 1571-1579. Research supported by NAF.
Physics
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Adiabatic Demagnetization Cooling, Electron Energy, Solar Electrons, Solar Wind, Cooling, Magnetoplasmadynamics, Solar Corona, Thermal Plasmas
Scientific paper
In thermally driven winds emanating from regions in the solar corona with base electron densities of n0 not less than 10 exp 8/cu cm, a substantial fraction of the heat conductive flux from the base is transfered into flow energy by the pressure gradient force. The adiabatic cooling of the electrons causes the electron temperature profile to fall off more rapidly than in heat conduction dominated flows. Alfven waves of solar origin, accelerating the basically thermally driven solar wind, lead to an increased mass flux and enhanced adiabatic cooling. The reduction in electron temperature may be significant also in the subsonic region of the flow and lead to a moderate increase of solar wind mass flux with increasing Alfven wave amplitude. In the solar wind model presented here the Alfven wave energy flux per unit mass is larger than that in models where the temperature in the subsonic flow is not reduced by the wave, and consequently the asymptotic flow speed is higher.
Leer Egil
Sandbaek Ornulf
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