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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.
R. H. D. Townsend (2009) studied this question.