This timely volume presents a series of review articles covering every aspect of interstellar turbulence--from accretion disks, molecular clouds, atomic and ionized media, through to spiral galaxies--based on a major international conference held in Mexico City. With advances in observational techniques and the development of more efficient computer codes and faster computers, research in this area has made spectacular progress in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important developments in observing and modeling turbulent flows in the cosmos. It provides…mehr
This timely volume presents a series of review articles covering every aspect of interstellar turbulence--from accretion disks, molecular clouds, atomic and ionized media, through to spiral galaxies--based on a major international conference held in Mexico City. With advances in observational techniques and the development of more efficient computer codes and faster computers, research in this area has made spectacular progress in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important developments in observing and modeling turbulent flows in the cosmos. It provides graduate students and researchers with a state-of-the-art summary of observational, theoretical and computational research in interstellar turbulence.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
1. Turbulence in the interstellar medium: a retrospective review 2. Mechanism of formation of atmospheric turbulence relevant for optical astronomy 3. Properties of atomic gas in spiral galaxies 4. Turbulence in the ionized gas in spiral galaxies 5. Probing interstellar turbulence in the warm ionized medium using emission lines 6. The spectrum and galactic distribution of microturbulence in diffuse ionized gas 7. Small scale structure and turbulence in the interstellar medium 8. What is the Reynolds number of the Reynolds' layer? 9. Photoionized gas in the galactic halo 10. Turbulent heating of the diffuse ionized gas 11. Cosmic rays in interstellar turbulence 12. Turbulence in line-driven stellar winds 13. An introduction to compressible MHD turbulence 14. Turbulence in atomic hydrogen 15. Supershells in spiral galaxies 16. The size distribution of superbubbles in the interstellar medium 17. Large-scale motions in the ISM of elliptical and spiral galaxies 18. Vortical motions driven by supernova explosions 19. The intermittent dissipation of turbulence: is it observed in the interstellar medium? 20. Chemistry in turbulent flows 21. Supersonic turbulence in giant extragalactic HII regions 22. Turbulence in HII regions: new results 23. Hypersonic turbulence of H2O masers 24. Water masers tracing alfvenic turbulence and magnetic fields in W51 M and W49 N 25. Turbulence in the Ursa Major cirrus cloud 26. The collisions of HVCs with a magnetized gaseous disk 27. The initial stellar mass function as a statistical sample of turbulent cloud structure 28. The structure of molecular clouds: are they fractal? 29. Diagnosing properties of turbulent flows from spectral line observations of the molecular interstellar medium 30. Centroid velocity increments as a probe of the turbulent velocity field in interstellar molecular clouds 31. High-resolution C18O mapping observations of Heiles' cloud 2 - statistical properties of the line width 32. Observations of magnetic fields in dense interstellar clouds: implications for MHD turbulence and cloud evolution 33. The density PDFs of supersonic random flows 34. Turbulence as an organizing agent in the ISM 35. Turbulence and magnetic reconnection in the interstellar medium 36. The evolution of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent clouds: numerical experiments 37. Super-Alfvénic turbulent fragmentation in molecular clouds 38. Decay timescales of MHD turbulence in molecular clouds 39. Numerical magnetohydrodynamic studies of turbulence and star formation 40. Direct numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamical turbulence 41. Fragmentation in molecular clouds: the formation of a stellar cluster 42. Accretion disk turbulence.
1. Turbulence in the interstellar medium: a retrospective review 2. Mechanism of formation of atmospheric turbulence relevant for optical astronomy 3. Properties of atomic gas in spiral galaxies 4. Turbulence in the ionized gas in spiral galaxies 5. Probing interstellar turbulence in the warm ionized medium using emission lines 6. The spectrum and galactic distribution of microturbulence in diffuse ionized gas 7. Small scale structure and turbulence in the interstellar medium 8. What is the Reynolds number of the Reynolds' layer? 9. Photoionized gas in the galactic halo 10. Turbulent heating of the diffuse ionized gas 11. Cosmic rays in interstellar turbulence 12. Turbulence in line-driven stellar winds 13. An introduction to compressible MHD turbulence 14. Turbulence in atomic hydrogen 15. Supershells in spiral galaxies 16. The size distribution of superbubbles in the interstellar medium 17. Large-scale motions in the ISM of elliptical and spiral galaxies 18. Vortical motions driven by supernova explosions 19. The intermittent dissipation of turbulence: is it observed in the interstellar medium? 20. Chemistry in turbulent flows 21. Supersonic turbulence in giant extragalactic HII regions 22. Turbulence in HII regions: new results 23. Hypersonic turbulence of H2O masers 24. Water masers tracing alfvenic turbulence and magnetic fields in W51 M and W49 N 25. Turbulence in the Ursa Major cirrus cloud 26. The collisions of HVCs with a magnetized gaseous disk 27. The initial stellar mass function as a statistical sample of turbulent cloud structure 28. The structure of molecular clouds: are they fractal? 29. Diagnosing properties of turbulent flows from spectral line observations of the molecular interstellar medium 30. Centroid velocity increments as a probe of the turbulent velocity field in interstellar molecular clouds 31. High-resolution C18O mapping observations of Heiles' cloud 2 - statistical properties of the line width 32. Observations of magnetic fields in dense interstellar clouds: implications for MHD turbulence and cloud evolution 33. The density PDFs of supersonic random flows 34. Turbulence as an organizing agent in the ISM 35. Turbulence and magnetic reconnection in the interstellar medium 36. The evolution of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent clouds: numerical experiments 37. Super-Alfvénic turbulent fragmentation in molecular clouds 38. Decay timescales of MHD turbulence in molecular clouds 39. Numerical magnetohydrodynamic studies of turbulence and star formation 40. Direct numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamical turbulence 41. Fragmentation in molecular clouds: the formation of a stellar cluster 42. Accretion disk turbulence.
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