mesosonic
adjEtymology
From meso- + sonic.
Definitions
Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a…
Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.
- In space plasmas, spacecraft usually encounter mesosonic flows, i.e. flows which are supersonic with respect to the ion thermal speed, but subsonic with respect to the electron thermal speed.
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