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We developed the full magnetohydrodynamical analytical jet model that allows accurate reproducing of a transversal and longitudinal structure for a highly collimated relativistic jets. This model can be used as a setup for convenient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 E. E. Nokhrina , I. N. Pashchenko , V. A. Frolova , R. V. Todorov

In this paper we present a major update to the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code cuHARM, which adds fully covariant treatment of radiation transport and the subsequent radiation backreaction on the dynamics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 John Wallace , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

In this paper we present a multilevel projection-based iterative scheme for solving thermal radiative transfer problems that performs iteration cycles on the high-order Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and low-order moment equations.…

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

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We describe the implementation of the shearing box approximation for the study of the dynamics of accretion disks in the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. Second-order Crank-Nicholson time differencing is used for the Coriolis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

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 present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

In this paper, we first establish a new fractional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) coupled flow and heat transfer model for a generalized second-grade fluid. This coupled model consists of a fractional momentum equation and a heat conduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Xiaoqing Chi , Hui Zhang , Xiaoyun Jiang

We have developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer method designed specifically for use with parallel adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics codes. This new algorithm, which we call hybrid characteristics, introduces a novel form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik-Jan Rijkhorst , Tomasz Plewa , Anshu Dubey , Garrelt Mellema

In this work we develop an approach for a molecular hydrogen ion (H2+) in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation while exposed to intense short-pulse radiation. Our starting point is the R-Matrix incorporating Time (RMT) formulation for atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 Cathal Ó Broin , Lampros A. A. Nikolopoulos

Kinetic transport equations are notoriously difficult to simulate because of their complex multiscale behaviors and the need to numerically resolve a high dimensional probability density function. Past literature has focused on building…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Zhichao Peng , Yanlai Chen , Yingda Cheng , Fengyan Li

Radiative transfer is a key component in almost all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. We present Magritte: a modern open-source software library for 3D radiative transfer. It uses a deterministic ray-tracer and formal solver, i.e.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Frederik De Ceuster , Ward Homan , Jeremy Yates , Leen Decin , Peter Boyle , James Hetherington

We describe a photon-conserving radiative transfer algorithm, using a spatially-adaptive ray tracing scheme, and its parallel implementation into the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological hydrodynamics code, Enzo. By coupling the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John H. Wise , Tom Abel

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

We derive the radiative transfer equation for arbitrary stationary relativistic flows in stationary spacetimes, i.e. for steady-state transfer problems. We show how the standard characteristics method of solution developed by Mihalas and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Chen , R. Kantowski , E. Baron , S. Knop , P. H. Hauschildt

We propose an efficient, robust, Lagrangian (characteristic-based) transport solver for the time-dependent thermal radiative Transfer (TRT) applications within the context of a moment-accelerated (High-Order/Low-Order, HOLO) algorithm. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 H. Park , L. Chacon , A. Matsekh , G. Chen

We introduce a new code for computing time-dependent continuum radiative transfer and non-equilibrium ionization states in static density fields with periodic boundaries. Our code solves the moments of the radiative transfer equation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Finlator , F. Ozel , R. Dave

Context: Knowledge about hot, massive stars is usually inferred from quantitative spectroscopy. To analyse non-spherical phenomena, the existing 1D codes must be extended to higher dimensions, and corresponding tools need to be developed.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 L. Hennicker , J. Puls , N. D. Kee , J. O. Sundqvist

To study the temperature in a gas subjected to electromagnetic radiations, one may use the Radiative Transfer equations coupled with the Navier-Stokes equations. The problem has 7 dimensions; however with minimal simplifications it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Francois Golse , Frederic Hecht , Olivier Pironneau , Pierre-Henri Tournier , Didier Smets

A new method for the formal solution of the 2D radiative transfer equation in axial symmetry in the presence of arbitrary velocity fields is presented. The combination of long and short characteristics methods is used to solve the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Korčáková , J. Kubát
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