Collapse and fragmentation of isothermal gas clouds
Abstract
An initial boundary value problem for the three-dimensional motion of a collapsing, isothermal gas cloud is solved using a numerical method. The method is based on the Monte-Carlo scheme, with the equations integrated using a high order N-body code, allowing individual time-steps for each element. The results show that the method is capable of following the growth of instabilities but further work is necessary.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/194.2.201
- Bibcode:
- 1981MNRAS.194..201W
- Keywords:
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- Gravitational Collapse;
- Interstellar Gas;
- Isothermal Processes;
- Molecular Clouds;
- Molecular Gases;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Fragments;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Numerical Integration;
- Astrophysics