Extended MHD modeling of the steady solar corona and the solar wind

Tamas I Gombosi1, Bart van der Holst1, Ward B Manchester1

  • 1Center for Space Environment Modeling, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.

Living Reviews in Solar Physics
|March 16, 2019
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