CWDM (Cold plus Warm Dark Matter) is defined as a Dark Matter which is a mixture of
Cold Dark Matter and
Warm Dark Matter. The main difference of
CWDM and Warm Dark Matter is the behavior of the Dark Matter
transfer function at small co-moving scales - while the Warm Dark Matter transfer function decreases exponentially (due to the finiteness of
free-streaming length),
CWDM transfer function fades much slower, reaching a plateau at large co-moving wave-numbers (see e.g.
[1]).
References:- [1]^ A. Boyarsky, J. Lesgourgues, O. Ruchayskiy and M. Viel, ``Lyman-alpha constraints on warm and on warm-plus-cold dark matter models,'' JCAP 0905 (2009) 012 [arXiv:0812.0010 [astro-ph]].