Empirical Closure Relation for the Vlasov Moment Equations
- 12 February 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 30 (7), 271-274
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.271
Abstract
Empirical statistical relationships are found between each of the third moments and the two second moments of solar-wind proton velocity distributions. These can be used to close the Vlasov moment equations when applied to the behavior of the solar-wind plasma over a sufficiently large temporal or spatial scale.Keywords
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