Alfven Wave in SI units
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AlfvenWave_SIunits.tar.gz
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For those of you who have access to Axel's cvs repository, you can just say:
cvs co public_html/teach/PencilCode/material/AlfvenWave_SIunits
Run first a wave with no viscosity and no resistivity.
Check the wave speed in km/s.
Estimate a reasonable resistivity for the Sun.
Determine the amount of Joule heating.
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$Date: 2013-01-23 13:49:10 $, $Author: dintrans $, $Revision: 1.4 $