2002/03/25 by Stanislav Boldyrev, Aake Nordlund, Paolo Padoan · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph #nlin.CD #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.89.031102
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.89:031102,2002 · 5 pages, 3 figures included
arxiv created 2002/03/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The interstellar medium (ISM) provides a unique laboratory for highly supersonic, driven hydrodynamics turbulence. We present a theory of such turbulence, confirm it by numerical simulations, and use the results to explain observational properties of interstellar molecular clouds, the regions where stars are born.