An Exact Integration Scheme for Radiative Cooling in Hydrodynamical Simulations
R H D Townsend
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A new scheme for incorporating radiative cooling in hydrodynamical codes is presented, centered around exact integration of the governing semi-discrete cooling equation. Using benchmark calculations based on the cooling downstream of a radiative shock, I demonstrate that the new scheme outperforms traditional explicit and implicit approaches in terms of accuracy, while remaining competitive in terms of execution speed.
Reference: ApJS, in press
Status: Manuscript has been accepted
Weblink: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/publications.php#journal-cooling
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Email: townsend@astro.wisc.edu