Formal Solutions for Polarized Radiative Transfer. II. High-order Methods
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2017-09-06 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
When integrating the radiative transfer equation for polarized light, the necessity of high-order numerical methods is well known. In fact, well-performing high-order formal solvers enable higher accuracy and the use of coarser spatial grids. Aiming to provide a clear comparison between formal solvers, this work presents different high-order numerical schemes and applies the systematic analysis proposed by Janett et al. (2017), emphasizing their advantages and drawbacks in terms of order of accuracy, stability, and computational cost.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.01280,
title = {Formal Solutions for Polarized Radiative Transfer. II. High-order Methods},
author = {Gioele Janett and Oskar Steiner and Luca Belluzzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01280},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures