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Shocks in Molecular Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Peter W. J. L. Brand
Peter W. J. L. Brand*
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Scotlandpwb@roe.ac.uk
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Abstract

A one-day workshop discussed the properties of shocks in star-forming regions. It also reviewed other physical processes in star-forming molecular gas, and the progress in numerical modelling of such physics. Discussion concentrated on the complexity which instabilities in the gas flow bring to the analysis of shocks. The consensus was that progress will be made as the spatial/spectral resolution of shock measurements improves, and as numerical modelling of the nonlinear growth of instabilities becomes possible, potentially leading to statistical models of shock dynamics.

Keywords

ISM: kinematics and dynamicsISM: moleculesMHDshock waves
Type
Workshop Report
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , June 1996 , pp. 268 - 271
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1996

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