Validation of the 3D AMR SIP-CESE Solar Wind Model for Four Carrington Rotations

Solar Physics

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-229

  Feng, Xueshang ^a   Yang, Liping ^a,b   Xiang, Changqing ^a   Jiang, Caowei ^a,b   Ma, Xiaopeng ^a,b   Wu, S T ^c   Zhong, DingKun ^a   Zhou, Yufen ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Numerical simulation; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862148505     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-012-9969-9     Document Type: Article

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