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Basic Equations

  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 .



Thomas Wiegelmann
Fri Jul 3 12:30:46 MET DST 1998