Hydrodynamical simulations of the decay of high-speed molecular turbulence - II. Divergence from isothermality
Hydrodynamical simulations of the decay of high-speed molecular turbulence - II. Divergence from isothermality
A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However, the dynamical processes in molecular clouds include shock waves, expansion waves, cooling induced collapse and baroclinic …