wiki:u/zchen/2/Isothermalwind

Version 3 (modified by Zhuo Chen, 11 years ago) ( diff )

Assume there is driving force and and the wind is in steady state.

Use and become:

(1)

Where

Differentiate with respect to , get

(2)

Substitute (2) into (1)

(3)

Critical point will happen at:

With velocity determined by:

Different wind initial speed, and will give very different profile. One of these solution is: subsonic initial wind accelerate all the way to the critical point and become supersonic when at very large . and

Where are initial radius and velocity.

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