Incorporating Radiative Cooling into a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Code

Details Incorporating Radiative Cooling into a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Code Incorporating Radiative Cooling into a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Code

1996-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611165v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to MNRAS

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A possible inconsistency arising when a radiative cooling term is incorporated in a finite resolution self-gravitating hydrodynamic code is discussed. The inconsistency appears when the heating-cooling balance within the cooling and collapsing gas cloud is broken near the resolution limit of a numerical code. As the result, the cooling time of a fluid element increases enormously leading to the unphysical conclusion that the fluid element does not cool and is therefore stable against the collapse. A special cooling consistency condition is introduced which approximately restores the heating-cooling balance and leads to a numerical solution that closely mimics the exact (infinite resolution) solution.

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