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Numerical transfer matrices have been widely used in the study of wave propagation and scattering. These may be viewed as descretizations of a recently introduced fundamental notion of transfer matrix which admits a representation in terms…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We present a new method for the numerical solution of the radiative-transfer equation (RTE) in multidimensional scenarios commonly encountered in computational astrophysics. The method is based on the direct solution of the Boltzmann…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 L. R. Weih , A. Gabbana , D. Simeoni , L. Rezzolla , S. Succi , R. Tripiccione

We present a numerical implementation of radiative transfer based on an explicitly photon-conserving advection scheme, where radiative fluxes over the cell interfaces of a structured or unstructured mesh are calculated with a second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margarita Petkova , Volker Springel

We study the problem of multi-compression and reconstructing a stochastic signal observed by several independent sensors (or compressors) that transmit compressed information to a fusion center. { The key aspect of this problem is to find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Pablo Soto-Quiros , Anatoli Torokhti , Stanley J. Miklavcic

In this work, we prove rigorous error estimates for a hybrid method introduced in [15] for solving the time-dependent radiation transport equation (RTE). The method relies on a splitting of the kinetic distribution function for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Victor P. DeCaria , Cory D. Hauck

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation involving the absorption and scattering terms, with incomplete data, is proposed. No restrictive assumption on those absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Alexey V. Smirnov , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen

We describe two separate wavelength discretization schemes that can be used in the numerical solution of the comoving frame radiative transfer equation. We present an improved second order discretization scheme and show that it leads to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

In the article, new asymptotic approximation of the $n$th order is obtained and proposed to be used in calculations of radiation propagation without scattering in optically thick media; the asymptotic approximation is much simpler and more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 S. A. Serov , S. S. Serova

The largest existing simulations of cosmic reionization model radiative transfer with moment methods that require a closure relation. The two most commonly used closure relations are M1 and OTVET; both close the moment hierarchy at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Harley Katz

The second moment method is a linear acceleration technique which couples the transport equation to a diffusion equation with transport-dependent additive closures. The resulting low-order diffusion equation can be discretized independent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Zachary K. Hardy , Jim E. Morel , Jan I. C. Vermaak

The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. Caola

This work presents an efficient numerical method based on spectral expansions for simulation of heat and moisture diffusive transfers through multilayered porous materials. Traditionally, by using the finite-difference approach, the problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Suelen Gasparin , Denys Dutykh , Nathan Mendes

Building upon recent results obtained in [7,8,9], we describe an efficient second order, A-stable scheme for solving the wave equation, based on the method of lines transpose (MOL$^T$), and the resulting semi-discrete (i.e. continuous in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Matthew Causley , Andrew Christlieb , Eric Wolf

Radiation is crucial not only for observing astrophysical objects, but also for transporting energy and momentum. However, accurate on-the-fly radiation transport in astrophysical simulations is challenging and computationally expensive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Jing-Ze Ma , Rüdiger Pakmor , Stephen Justham , Selma E. de Mink

This study investigates numerical methods to solve nonlinear transport problems characterized by various sorption isotherms with a focus on the Freundlich type of isotherms. We describe and compare second order accurate numerical schemes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Dagmar Zakova , Peter Frolkovic

This paper presents approximation methods for time-dependent thermal radiative transfer problems in high energy density physics. It is based on the multilevel quasidiffusion method defined by the high-order radiative transfer equation (RTE)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Dmitriy Y. Anistratov , Joseph M. Coale

The theory of heat transfer by electromagnetic radiation is based on the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the radiation intensity, or equivalently on the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for the photon distribution. We focus in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-17 Thomas Christen , Frank Kassubek , Rudolf Gati

This study develops a novel multiscale computational method for heat conduction problems of composite structures with diverse periodic configurations in different subdomains. Firstly, the second-order two-scale (SOTS) solutions for these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Hao Dong , Junzhi Cui , Yufeng Nie , Zihao Yang

Motivated by applications in quantitative photoacoustic imaging, we study inverse problems to a semilinear radiative transport equation (RTE) where we intend to reconstruct absorption coefficients in the equation from single and multiple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

We design, analyse and implement an arbitrary order scheme applicable to generic meshes for a coupled elliptic-parabolic PDE system describing miscible displacement in porous media. The discretisation is based on several adaptations of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Daniel Anderson , Jerome Droniou