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An investigation of the role of turbulence in the fragmentation of a collapsing interstellar cloud is described. The cloud is represented by a set of discrete point masses, whose motion under the action of suitably designed inter-point forces is followed numerically.
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Aust, C. (1973). An Investigation of the Rôle of Turbulence in the Formation of Star Clusters by a Point-Mass Simulation. In: Tapley, B.D., Szebehely, V. (eds) Recent Advances in Dynamical Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2611-6_24
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