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Magnetic flux freezing in a highly conducting solar wind can carry open magnetic field lines outward. A nearly radial flux tube occupying fixed solid angle has area proportional to $r^2$, so constant magnetic flux gives $B_r\propto r^{-2}$. If a field is approximately dipolar inside an opening radius $r_o$ and radial beyond it, its radial component at $r\gg r_o$ is enhanced by order $r/r_o$ compared with continued dipolar $r^{-3}$ decay. Opposite polarities preserve zero net flux through a closed surface; this approximation does not introduce a magnetic monopole.

In axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamics, $\Omega =u_{\varphi }/R$ is the material angular velocity. Cylindrical basis-vector derivatives and mass conservation give the displayed winding equation. Thus $B_{\varphi }/(\rho R)$ is an advected scalar only when ${\mathbf{B}}_p\cdot \nabla \Omega =0$. Differential rotation along a field line otherwise produces toroidal field. This does not violate magnetic flux freezing, which concerns flux through a material surface rather than a cylindrical vector component.