Wind_heating.kpacket_frac

The user can set the fraction of additional k-packets (energy into the thermal pool) added during the macro-atom calculations. This subsequently reduces the number of photons emitted at each cycle. The default fraction is set to 0.1.

Type

Double

Unit

None

Values

Greater than 0

File

setup.c

Parent(s)

• Wind_heating.extra_processes: nonthermal, both

• Line_transfer: macro_atoms, macro_atoms_thermal_trapping