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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
Volume 277, Issue 1-2, Pages 157-167Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012237708634
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A pedagogical introduction to the classical hydrodynamic steady state solutions for flows in a spherically symmetric atmosphere is presented along with a detailed analysis of the stability of such flows and a discussion of the Parker/Bondi phase diagram of solutions in the Mach number - stellar radius plane. This leads naturally to the scenario presented by Velli (1994) for wind-accretion transitions, which helps to explain results from numerical simulations in many contexts and gives a more comprehensive answer to the question of why the solar wind and other steady state flows in spherical symetry must quite generally become supersonic.
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