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We have developed an algorithm for transferring radiation in three-dimensional space. The algorithm computes radiation source and sink terms using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method, based on a formulation in which the integral of any…

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We introduce the "Asymmetric Radiative Transfer In Shells Technique" (ARTIST), a new method for photon propagation on large scales that explicitly conserves photons, propagates photons at the speed of light, approximately accounts for…

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We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

The development of radiation hydrodynamical methods that are able to follow gas dynamics and radiative transfer self-consistently is key to the solution of many problems in numerical astrophysics. Such fluid flows are highly complex, rarely…

Several Lagrangian methodologies have been proposed in recent years to simulate advection-dispersion of solutes in fluids as a mass exchange between numerical particles carrying the fluid. In this paper, we unify these methodologies,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Guillem Sole-Mari , Michael J. Schmidt , Stephen D. Pankavich , David A. Benson

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We present a new algorithm to solve the equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in a frequency-integrated, two-moment formulation. Novel features of the algorithm include i) the adoption of a non-local Variable Eddington Tensor (VET)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Shyam H. Menon , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Rolf Kuiper , Benjamin D. Wibking , Manuel Jung

A numerical scheme is proposed for the solution of the three-dimensional radiative transfer equation with variable optical depth. We show that time-dependent ray tracing is an attractive choice for simulations of astrophysical ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Razoumov , Douglas Scott

Radiative transfer is a fundamental process in astrophysics, essential for both interpreting observations and modeling thermal and dynamical feedback in simulations via ionizing radiation and photon pressure. However, numerically solving…

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The thermal radiative transfer (TRT) equations form an integro-differential system that describes the propagation and collisional interactions of photons. Computing accurate and efficient numerical solutions TRT are challenging for several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Ryan G. McClarren , James A. Rossmanith , Minwoo Shin

We have been constructed a brand-new radiation hydrodynamics solver based upon Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), which works on parallel computer system. The code is designed to investigate the formation and evolution of the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hajime Susa

We present a new massively parallel code for N-body and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of modified gravity models. The code employs a multigrid-accelerated Newton-Gauss-Seidel relaxation solver on an adaptive mesh to efficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ewald Puchwein , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel

We describe the structure and implementation of a radiation hydrodynamic solver for MANGA, the moving-mesh hydrodynamics module of the large-scale parallel code, Charm N-body GrAvity solver (ChaNGa). We solve the equations of time dependent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Philip Chang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

We develop a time-dependent multi-group multidimensional relativistic radiative transfer code, which is required to numerically investigate radiation from relativistic fluids involved in, e.g., gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Nozomu Tominaga , Sanshiro Shibata , Sergei I. Blinnikov

We investigate integral formulations and fast algorithms for the steady-state radiative transfer equation with isotropic and anisotropic scattering. When the scattering term is a smooth convolution on the unit sphere, a model reduction step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuwei Fan , Jing An , Lexing Ying

We present an implementation of thermal conduction including the anisotropic effects of magnetic fields for SPH. The anisotropic thermal conduction is mainly proceeding parallel to magnetic fields and suppressed perpendicular to the fields.…

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Numerical modeling simulations and the use of high-performance computing are fundamental for detailed safety analysis, control and operation of a nuclear reactor, allowing the study and analysis of problems related to thermal-hydraulics,…

We describe an extension of the Enzo code to enable fully-coupled radiation hydrodynamical simulation of inhomogeneous reionization in large $\sim (100 Mpc)^3$ cosmological volumes with thousands to millions of point sources. We solve all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael L. Norman , Daniel R. Reynolds , Geoffrey C. So , Robert P. Harkness , John H. Wise

The increasing size of cosmological simulations has led to the need for new visualization techniques. We focus on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamical (SPH) simulations run with the GADGET code and describe methods for visually accessing the…

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics implementation SPHGal, which combines some recently proposed improvements in GADGET. This includes a pressure-entropy formulation with a Wendland kernel, a higher order estimate of velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Chia-Yu Hu , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Benjamin P. Moster , Ludwig Oser