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The solar atmosphere is diagnosed by solving the polarized radiative transfer problem for plasmas in Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE). A key challenge in multidimensional NLTE diagnosis is to integrate efficiently the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 E. S. Carlin , S. Blanes , F. Casas

Radiative Transfer (RT) effects play a crucial role in the thermal history of the intergalactic medium. Here I discuss recent advances in the development of numerical methods that introduce RT to cosmological hydrodynamics. These methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Abel

In three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) problems, the tensor product quadratures are generally not optimal in terms of the number of discrete ray directions needed for a given accuracy of the angular integration of the radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Jiri Stepan , Jaume Jaume Bestard , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Efficient numerical approximation of the polarized radiative transfer equation is challenging because this system of ordinary differential equations exhibits stiff behavior, which potentially results in numerical instability. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Gioele Janett , Alberto Paganini

Context. Computing spectra from 3D simulations of stellar atmospheres when allowing for departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) is computationally very intensive. Aims. We develop a machine learning based method to speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bruce A. Chappell , Tiago M. D. Pereira

We extend our framework for 3D radiative transfer calculations with a non-local operator splitting methods along (full) characteristics to spherical and cylindrical coordinate systems. These coordinate systems are better suited to a number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

The inversion of spectropolarimetric observations of the solar upper atmosphere is one of the most challenging goals in solar physics. If we account for all relevant ingredients of the spectral line formation process, such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Jiri Stepan , Tanausu del Pino Aleman , Javier Trujillo Bueno

We present an algorithm for two-dimensional radiative transfer in axisymmetric, circumstellar media. The formal integration of the transfer equation is performed by a generalization of the short characteristics (SC) method to spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dullemond , R. Turolla

The emergence of three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of stellar atmospheres has sparked a need for efficient radiative transfer codes to calculate detailed synthetic spectra. We present RH 1.5D, a massively parallel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Han Uitenbroek

We discuss Monte-Carlo techniques for addressing the 3-dimensional time-dependent radiative transfer problem in rapidly expanding supernova atmospheres. The transfer code SEDONA has been developed to calculate the lightcurves, spectra, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Kasen , R. C. Thomas , Peter Nugent

We describe the implementation of a module for the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code which solves the time-independent, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) equation on multidimensional Cartesian simulation domains, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Yan-Fei Jiang

We present the implementation of two-moment based general-relativistic multi-group radiation transport module in the $\texttt{G}$eneral-relativistic $\texttt{mu}$ltigrid $\texttt{nu}$merical ($\texttt{Gmunu}$) code. On top of solving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-10 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Achieving efficient and accurate simulation of the radiative transfer has long been a research challenge. Here we introduce the general synthetic iterative scheme as an easy-to-implement approach to address this issue. First, a macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kaiyuan Wang , Yanbing Zhang , Qi Li , Lei Wu

A solution of the radiative-transfer problem in 3D with arbitrary velocity fields in the Eulerian frame is presented. The method is implemented in our 3D radiative transfer framework and used in the PHOENIX/3D code. It is tested by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. M. Seelmann , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Due to its accuracy and generality, Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) has emerged as the prevalent method for Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in arbitrary geometries. The standard MCRT encounters a significant efficiency barrier in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Aaron Smith , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Volker Bromm , Milos Milosavljevic

We present a new approach to numerically model continuum radiative transfer based on the Optically Thin Variable Eddington Tensor (OTVET) approximation. Our method insures the exact conservation of the photon number and flux (in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel

This paper is presented to give numerical solutions of some cases of nonlinear wave-like equations with variable coefficients by using Reduced Differential Transform Method (RDTM). RDTM can be applied most of the physical, engineering,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Murat Gubes , Yildiray Keskin , Galip Oturanc

Context. The numerical modeling of the generation and transfer of polarized radiation is a key task in solar and stellar physics research and has led to a relevant class of discrete problems that can be reframed as linear systems. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Gioele Janett , Pietro Benedusi , Luca Belluzzi , Rolf Krause

Using the methods of general relativity Lindquist derived the radiative transfer equation that is correct to all orders in v/c. Mihalas developed a method of solution for the important case of monotonic velocity fields with spherically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Baron , Bin Chen , P. H. Hauschildt

We consider the radiation transfer problem in the discrete-ordinate, plane-parallel approach. We introduce two benchmark problems with exact known solutions and show that for strongly non-homogeneous media the homogeneous layers…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. -P. Zorzano , A. M. Mancho , L. Vazquez