Do describe the coronal plasma we use the MHD equations:
Here, P stands for the plasma pressure,
for the magnetic field,
for the
plasma density,
for the solar gravitational potential,
for the plasma velocity,
for the electric field,
R is the gas constant,
T the temperature,
the current density,
the
resistivity and
the vacuum permeability. We normalize
the magnetic field
by a typical value
, the plasma pressure p by
,
the mass density
by
,
the length L by a solar radius and the current density
by
, the plasma bulk velocity by the Alfven velocity
, the
electric field by
, the time by the Alfven time and the resistivity
by
.