The modelling of feedback in star formation simulations

TL;DR

This paper reviews numerical simulations of stellar feedback mechanisms across various scales, highlighting recent algorithms and their implications for star formation, magnetic interactions, and galaxy evolution.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive survey of recent algorithms and simulation results related to stellar feedback in star formation and galaxy evolution.

Findings

Feedback mechanisms influence star formation efficiency

Interactions between feedback and magnetic fields are significant

Simulations reveal complex feedback interplay at galactic scales

Abstract

I review the current state of numerical simulations of stellar feedback in the context of star formation at scales ranging from the formation of individual stars to models of galaxy formation including cosmic reionisation. I survey the wealth of algorithms developed recently to solve the radiative transfer problem and to simulate stellar winds, supernovae and protostellar jets. I discuss the results of these simulations with regard to star formation in molecular clouds, the interaction of different feedback mechanisms with each other and with magnetic fields, and in the wider context of galactic-- and cosmological--scale simulations.