Choices in CO5BOLD
- General:
Cartesian box, equidistant grid
- General:
gravitation as external (spherical) potential
- General:
tabulated EOS accounts for ionization effects
- Hydrodynamics:
operator splitting reduces
3D or 2D problem to 1D
- Hydrodynamics:
1D approximate Riemann solver
(Roe type)
- Hydrodynamics:
additional 3D tensor viscosity
- Radiation transport:
non-local: short-characteristics scheme: global models
Radiation transport: non-local: long-characteristics scheme: local models
- Radiation transport:
no scattering, strict LTE
- Radiation transport:
opacities: tabulated, grey, PHOENIX + OPAL
- Dust:
module from Susanne Höfner's 1D RHD code
- Dust:
time-dependent grain formation and growth (moment method)
- Dust:
equilibrium carbon chemistry for molecules