Steady MHD solutions for collimated winds (Q1574499)

An approach to model magnetohydrodynamic steady axisymmetric outflows is the so-called self-similar technique, wherein the physical variables are factorized and a scaling is assumed along one of the coordinates. This scaling depends on the astrophysical process under investigation. In this paper, all possible self-similar MHD outflow solutions are summarized. The authors discuss the main properties of a class of solutions which are self-similar in the meridional direction, and investigate the asymptotic structure of collimated winds.