Ticket #71 (new bug)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Incorrect HD cooling rate in the low density limit

Reported by: sglover Owned by: bwoshea
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: enzo Version: devel svn
Keywords: Cc:

Description

The expression given in Galli & Palla (1998) for the low density HD cooling rate is incorrect: it includes cooling from the 0->1 and 1->2 collisional transitions, but in the low density limit this should actually be 0->1 and 0->2. (NB Daniele Galli has confirmed to me that this is a mistake in the original paper). The attached patch for calc_rates.src corrects this problem.

The revised rate gives roughly 25-30% less cooling at temperatures between 100 and 200 K.

Attachments

cr.patch (0.6 KB) - added by sglover 5 years ago.
Patch for calc_rates.src (against r1965)

Change History

Changed 5 years ago by sglover

Patch for calc_rates.src (against r1965)

Changed 5 years ago by rpwagner

  • owner changed from somebody to bwoshea
  • version set to devel svn

Simon, thanks for bringing this up. Brian, I'm kicking this to you to verify and implement.

--Rick

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