Self-similar evolution of remnants with conductively driven mass-loading

We present self-similar solutions for remnants that are mass-loaded by cond uctively driven evaporation. This work extends the earlier results of Chiez e and Lazareff through the inclusion of the explicit dependence of the mass -loading rate on position as well as temperature, and the treatment of cyli ndrically symmetric as well as spherically symmetric cases. The latter case is relevant to an individual supernova remnant in its adiabatic phase expa nding into a clumpy interstellar medium. The former case may be relevant to the evolution of the outflow from a young galaxy in which a nearly simulta neous burst of star formation occurs as the density increases on its axis o f symmetry.