A four-fluid turbulence-driven solar wind model for preferential acceleration and heating of heavy ions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A3, 2000, Pages 5093-5111

  Hu, You Qiu ^a,b   Esser, Ruth ^a   Habbal, Shadia R ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 39449131645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900430     Document Type: Article

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