An Exact Integration Scheme for Radiative Cooling in Hydrodynamical Simulations
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A new scheme for incorporating radiative cooling in hydrodynamical codes is presented, centered around exact integration of the governing semidiscrete 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.
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