On the dynamics and survival of fractal clouds in galactic winds

@article{BandaBarragn2019OnTD,
  title={On the dynamics and survival of fractal clouds in galactic winds},
  author={W E Banda-Barrag{\'a}n and Federico Zertuche and Christoph Federrath and J Garc{\'i}a Del Valle and Marcus Br{\"u}ggen and Alexander Y. Wagner},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2019}
}
Recent observations suggest that dense gas clouds can survive even in hot galactic winds. Here we show that the inclusion of turbulent densities with different statistical properties has significant effects on the evolution of wind-swept clouds. We investigate how the initial standard deviation of the lognormal density field influences the dynamics of quasi-isothermal clouds embedded in supersonic winds. We compare uniform, fractal solenoidal, and fractal compressive cloud models in both 3D… 
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