gravoturbulent

English

Etymology

gravo- +‎ turbulent

Adjective

gravoturbulent (not comparable)

1. (physics, astronomy) Relating to turbulence during the gravitational collapse of a star
   • 2015, Andrei Klishin, Igor Chilingarian, “Explaining the stellar initial mass function with the theory of spatial networks”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     As opposed to gravoturbulent fragmentation theories, we consider the dense core growth and demonstrate that the power law core mass function emerges independently of the initial distribution of density fluctuations by mass.