Tommaso Grassi - December 15, 2017

Astrophysical environments where microphysics matters

The numerical modelling of physical processes that take place in the interstellar
medium, and in particular those connected to the chemical and thermal evolution of
gas and dust, is a challenging task, especially when coupled to massive 3D-MHD
simulations. Within this context, in the last years, I have developed KROME, a code
aimed at including microphysics in CPU-demanding models. During this talk I will
review some of the aspects related to chemistry and microphysics, showing various
applications, as for example cpu-friendly dust cooling, chemistry in molecular
clouds, non-ideal MHD, and other physical processes that keep me awake at night.