Speaker
Dr
Stefano Bovino
Description
The study of the ISM includes a large set of processes and phenomena that needs an ac- curate modeling and which are often CPU-demanding: chemistry, cooling, heating, dust evolution, photochemistry, and many others. To cope with these we developed a package, named KROME, which is designed to manage the chemistry and the related phenomena with ease. It consists of a Python pre-processor that creates the Fortran routines needed by any advanced hydrodynamical code aimed at studying the properties of the ISM. The code provides a good compromise between flexibility and numerical efficiency and can be applied to many different environments. It includes also an accurate description of dust. In this poster I will introduce the main features of the KROME package and show how it can be easily embedded in 3D cosmological code like ENZO, FLASH and RAMSES, giving some example of the various applications.