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Fragmentation of a gas cloud with orthogonal rotation and magnetic axes. (English) Zbl 0635.76037

We study the evolution of a rotating, cool, self-gravitating gas cloud, permeated by flux from the local galactic magnetic field, and with the magnetic and rotation axes mutually orthogonal. If the fluxhree- dimensional wing-body configuration is analyzed and the results are compared with those obtained through experiments.

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76E20 Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows
76E25 Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows
85A05 Galactic and stellar dynamics
76M99 Basic methods in fluid mechanics
76N99 Compressible fluids and gas dynamics
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