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IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2008
IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 2008 73(1):225-230; doi:10.1093/imamat/hxm047
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. All rights reserved.

The role of thermal instability in star formation

S. A. E. G. Falle{dagger}

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

{dagger} Email: sam{at}amsta.leeds.ac.uk

Received on December 5, 2006; Accepted on February 27, 2007

The observations tell us that the density in the giant molecular clouds in which stars are formed is inhomogeneous on a variety of scales, but it seems unlikely that this is due to the action of gravitational instability. This paper describes numerical calculations using an adaptive mesh refinement magnetohydrodynamics code that show that thermal instability may have an important role to play in the formation of this structure

Keywords: AMR; MHD waves; thermal instability.


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