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The Radiative transfer coherent backscattering (RT-CB) code is extended to apply to dense discrete random media of optically soft spherical particles. This is achieved by utilizing the well-known static-structure-factor (SSF) correction…
We present REMIX, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme designed to alleviate effects that typically suppress mixing and instability growth at density discontinuities in SPH simulations. We approach this problem by directly…
We present the first extension of the special-relativistic Lattice-Boltzmann Method for radiative transport developed by Weih et al. (2020), to solve the radiative-transfer equation in curved spacetimes. The novel approach is based on the…
We develop an asymptotic preserving scheme for the gray radiative transfer equation. Two asymptotic regimes are considered: one is a diffusive regime described by a nonlinear diffusion equation for the material temperature; the other is a…
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We describe RAGE, the ``Radiation Adaptive Grid Eulerian'' radiation-hydrodynamics code, including its data structures, its parallelization strategy and performance, its hydrodynamic algorithm(s), its (gray) radiation diffusion algorithm,…