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Understanding the dynamics of the solar chromosphere is crucial to understanding energy transport across the solar atmosphere. The chromosphere is optically thick at many wavelengths and described by non-local thermodynamic equilibrium…
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We present a general formalism for computing self-consistent, numerical solutions to the time-dependent radiative transfer equation in low velocity, multi-level ions undergoing radiative interactions. Recent studies of time-dependent…
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)…
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