Abstract
AbstractParallel transport along an open magnetic field line produces and sustains temperature anisotropy for a long mean‐free‐path plasma. The parallel variation of ambipolar potential (Φ) and plasma profiles such as density (n), parallel and perpendicular temperature (T‖ and T⊥), and parallel flow (u), is found to be critically dependent on the two distinct components of the parallel heat flux, qn and qs. Both their profile (qn/B and qs/B2) and the upstream values of the ratio of the conductive and convective thermal flux (qn/nuT‖ and qs/nuT⊥) provide the controlling physics, in addition to B modulation (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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