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.
Radiative Cooling II: Effects of Density and Metallicity
This work follows Lykins et al. discussion of classic plasma cooling function at low density and solar metallicity. Here we focus on how the cooling function changes over a wide range of density (n_H<10^12 cm^(-3)) and metallicity (Z<30Z _sun ). We find that high densities enhance the ionization of elements such as hydrogen and helium until they reach local thermodynamic equilibrium. By charge transfer, the metallicity changes the ionization of hydrogen when it is partially ionized. We describe the total cooling function as a sum of four parts: those due to H&He, the heavy elements, electron-e…
Hinode EIS Observations of Plasma Composition Evolution and Radiative Cooling of Solar Flare Loops
INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(罗马天文台);NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(NASA戈达德太空飞行中心);Universities Space Research Association(大学空间研究协会);Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London(伦敦大学学院穆拉德空间科学实验室);Northumbria University(诺森比亚大学);Computational Physics Inc.(计算物理公司);Dublin City University(都柏林城市大学);Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies(都柏林高等研究院);Konkoly Observatory(孔科利天文台)
Nature's most powerful high-energy sources are capable of accelerating particles to high energy and radiate it away on extremely short timescales, even shorter than the light crossing time of the system. It is yet unclear what physical processes can produce such an efficient acceleration, despite the copious radiative losses. By means of radiative particle-in-cell simulations, we show that magnetically dominated turbulence in pair plasmas subject to strong synchrotron cooling generates a nonthermal particle spectrum with a hard power-law range (slope $p \sim 1$) within a few eddy turnover time…
Radiation transport plays important roles in stellar atmospheres, but the effects of turbulence are being obscured by other effects such as stratification. Using radiative hydrodynamic simulations of forced turbulence, we determine the decay rates of sinusoidal large-scale temperature perturbations of different wavenumbers in the optically thick and thin regimes. Increasing the wavenumber increases the rate of decay in both regimes, but this effect is much weaker than for the usual turbulent diffusion of passive scalars, where the increase is quadratic for small wavenumbers. The turbulent deca…