TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC-FIELDS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS

In this paper I first review some of the simple structural concepts associated with compressible turbulence. In particular the hierarchical or self-similar fractal structure to be expected is formulated in a manner readily compared to the observations, and to previous work. In the next section I present the first results of a wavelet analysis on molecular clouds, which seem to confirm the hierarchical scaling. I conclude with an extension of the theory to include magnetic fields. This latter theory represents an alternative to the more conventional dynamo theory.