Abstract
Abstract We analyse the evaporation and condensation of spherical and cylindrical H i clouds of the cold neutral medium surrounded by the warm neutral medium. Because the interstellar medium including those two phases is well described as a thermally bistable fluid, it is useful to apply pattern formation theories to the dynamics of the interface between the two phases. Assuming isobaric evolution of fluids and a simple polynomial form of the heat-loss function, we show the curvature effects of the interface. We find that approximate solutions for spherical clouds are in good agreement with numerically obtained solutions. We extend our analysis to general curved interfaces taking into account the curvature effects explicitly. We find that the curvature effects always stabilize curved interfaces under assumptions such as isobaric evolution that we adopt in this Letter.
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