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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…

In this paper, we present a new method to perform numerical simulations of astrophysical MHD flows using the Adaptive Mesh Refinement framework and Constrained Transport. The algorithm is based on a previous work in which the MUSCL--Hancock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fromang , P. Hennebelle , R. Teyssier

We present a new method for modeling inhomogeneous cosmic reionization on large scales. Utilizing high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with 2048^3 dark matter particles, 2048^3 gas cells, and 17 billion adaptive rays in a L =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

We introduce the radiative transfer postprocessing code Subsweep. The code is based on the method of transport sweeps, in which the exact solution to the scattering-less radiative transfer equation is computed in a single pass through the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Toni Peter , Joseph S. W. Lewis , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover , Guido Kanschat

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak

We present the implementation of a three-dimensional, second order accurate Godunov-type algorithm for magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), in the adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) cosmological code {\tt CHARM}. The algorithm is based on the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Miniati , Daniel F. Martin

Precision measurement of the cosmological recombination spectrum can provide an entire new window to look at the early universe. We aim to quantify the information hidden in the cosmological recombination spectrum and for this purpose we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Debajyoti Sarkar , Rishi Khatri

We study the evolution of ionization fronts around the first proto-galaxies by using high resolution numerical cosmological (Lambda+CDM model) simulations and Monte Carlo radiative transfer methods. We present the numerical scheme in detail…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , S. Marri , G. Raimondo

The study of photoionized environments is fundamental to many astrophysical problems. Up to the present most photoionization codes have numerically solved the equations of radiative transfer by making the extreme simplifying assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ercolano , M. J. Barlow , P. J. Storey , X. -W. Liu

Aims. We present a new radiation hydrodynamics code, called "ARK-RT" which uses a two-moment model with the M1 closure relation for radiative transfer. This code aims at being ready for high-performance computing, on exascale architectures.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 H. Bloch , P. Tremblin , M. González , T. Padioleau , E. Audit

Context. Magnetic fields are important to the dynamics of many astrophysical processes and can typically be studied through polarization observations. Polarimetric interferometry capabilities of modern (sub)millimeter telescope facilities…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Boy Lankhaar , Wouter Vlemmings

We introduce non-equilibrium molecular hydrogen chemistry into the radiation hydrodynamics code Ramses-RT. This is an adaptive mesh refinement grid code with radiation hydrodynamics that couples the thermal chemistry of hydrogen and helium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-07 Sarah Nickerson , Romain Teyssier , Joakim Rosdahl

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

Medical image retrieval is a valuable field for supporting clinical decision-making, yet current methods primarily support 2D images and require fully annotated queries, limiting clinical flexibility. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Inye Na , Nejung Rue , Jiwon Chung , Hyunjin Park

We introduce radiance meshes, a technique for representing radiance fields with constant density tetrahedral cells produced with a Delaunay tetrahedralization. Unlike a Voronoi diagram, a Delaunay tetrahedralization yields simple triangles…

Resonance spectral lines such as H I Ly {\alpha}, Mg II h&k, and Ca II H&K that form in the solar chromosphere are influenced by the effects of 3D radiative transfer as well as partial redistribution (PRD). So far no one has modeled these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andrii V. Sukhorukov , Jorrit Leenaarts

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 the new recombination code HYREC-2, holding the same accuracy as the state-of-the-art codes HYREC and COSMOREC and, at the same time, surpassing the computational speed of the code RECFAST commonly used for CMB-anisotropy data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

We have developed a modular semi-numerical code that computes the time and spatially dependent ionization of neutral hydrogen (HI), neutral (HeI) and singly ionized helium (HeII) in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The model accounts for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Anne Hutter