Chemo-dynamical evolution of the ISM in galaxies
- Author(s)
- Stefan Harfst, Gerhard Hensler, Christian Theis
- Abstract
Chemo-dynamical models have been introduced in the late eighties and are a generally accepted tool for understanding galaxy evolution. They have been successfully applied to one-dimensional problems, e.g. the evolution of non-rotating galaxies, and two-dimensional problems, e.g. the evolution of disk galaxies. Recently, also three-dimensional chemo-dynamical models have become available. In these models the dynamics of different components, i.e. dark matter, stars and a multi-phase interstellar medium, are treated in a self-consistent way and several processes allow for an exchange of matter, energy and momentum between the components or different gas phases. Some results of chemo-dynamical models and their comparison with observations of chemical abundances or star formation histories will be reviewed.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Pages
- 431-439
- No. of pages
- 9
- Publication date
- 2004
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/fa93b6d3-07dd-48be-b546-d678dcd3c28e