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The Collimation of MHD Winds: Bipolar Flows and Jets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
We show that axisymmetric magnetized winds emanating from rotating stars, disks, tori, etc. generally tend to collimate along the symmetry axis and conjecture that this is the reason there are so many bipolar flows and jets. The actual form of the flows at large distances from the source are either cylindrical or paraboloidal depending on the total poloidal current.
- Type
- 6. Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Dark Globules and in the Pre-Stellar and Circumstellar Environment
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 353 - 356
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1990
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