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Context. Radiation plays a significant role in solar and astrophysical environments as it may constitute a sizeable fraction of the energy density, momentum flux, and the total pressure. Modelling the dynamic interaction between radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Nishant Narechania , Rony Keppens , Asif ud-Doula , Nicolas Moens , Jon Sundqvist

This paper presents nonlinear iterative methods for the fundamental thermal radiative transfer (TRT) model defined by the time-dependent multifrequency radiative transfer (RT) equation and the material energy balance (MEB) equation. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

We extend our framework for 3D radiative transfer calculations with a non-local operator splitting methods along (full) characteristics to spherical and cylindrical coordinate systems. These coordinate systems are better suited to a number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Using the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism, we propose a general microscopic framework to investigate the radiative heat transfer (RHT) between coplanar objects with a square lattice. We employ the obtained formulas to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Tao Zhu , Yong-Mei Zhang , Jian-Sheng Wang

A parametric, hybrid reduced order model approach based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition with both Galerkin projection and interpolation based on Radial Basis Functions method is presented. This method is tested against a case of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Sokratia Georgaka , Giovanni Stabile , Kelbij Star , Gianluigi Rozza , Michael J Bluck

Radiative transfer has a strong impact on the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar dense cores. We present the radiation-hydrodynamics solver we designed for the RAMSES code. The method is designed for astrophysical purposes, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Benoit Commercon , Romain Teyssier , Edouard Audit , Patrick Hennebelle , Gilles Chabrier

(abridged) We apply a second-order Godunov code, Athena, to studies of the magnetorotational instability using unstratified shearing box simulations with a uniform net vertical field and a sinusoidally varying zero net vertical field. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jacob B. Simon , John F. Hawley , Kris Beckwith

Shocks are often invoked as heating mechanisms in astrophysical systems, with both adiabatic compression and dissipative heating that leading to temperature increases. Whilst shocks are reasonably well understood for ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Ben Snow

We present the formulation, algorithm and numerical tests of the magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) method with particles treated under the guiding center approximation, which we term the MHD-gPIC method, and it is implemented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Zitao Hu , Xue-Ning Bai , Xiaochen Sun

We derive two new forms of the K\'arm\'an-Howarth-Monin equation for decaying compressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We test them on results of a weakly-compressible, two-dimensional, moderate-Reynolds-number Hall MHD…

An important question for the outlook of stellarator reactors is their robustness against pressure driven modes, and the underlying mechanism behind experimentally observed soft $\beta$ limits. Towards building a robust answer to these…

We introduce a radiative transfer code module for the magnetohydrodynamical adaptive mesh refinement code FLASH 4. It is coupled to an efficient chemical network which explicitly tracks the three hydrogen species H, H_2, H+ as well as C+…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 C. Baczynski , S. C. O. Glover , R. S. Klessen

In a previous publication [J. Chem. Phys., 161, 044105 (2024)], it has been shown that Rothe's method can be used to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) for the hydrogen atom in a strong laser field using time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Simon Elias Schrader , Thomas Bondo Pedersen , Simen Kvaal

To achieve efficient and accurate long-time integration, we propose a fast, accurate, and stable high-order numerical method for solving fractional-in-space reaction-diffusion equations. The proposed method is explicit in nature and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Almushaira Mustafa , Harish Bhatt

We present a numerical solver for plasma dynamics simulations in Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) approximation in one, two and three dimensions. We consider both isotropic and anisotropic thermal pressure cases, where a general gyrotropic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Marek Strumik , Krzysztof Stasiewicz

Forward modeling is often used to interpret substructures observed in protoplanetary disks. To ensure the robustness and consistency of the current forward modeling approach from the community, we conducted a systematic comparison of…

We present a new radiative transfer method Short-N Characteristics that is a hybrid between the standard long characteristic methods and the standard short characteristic methods. We have implemented the numerical method within the SPECT3D…

This study was undertaken to develop a system for heat transfer simulation for optimization and treatment planning of magnetic hyperthermia treatment (MHT) using magnetic particle imaging (MPI). First, we performed phantom experiments to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Natsuo Banura , Atsushi Mimura , Kohei Nishimoto , Kenya Murase

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

This work is concerned with the numerical simulation of plasma arc interaction with aerospace substrates under conditions akin to lightning strike and in particular with the accurate calculation of radiative heat losses. These are important…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 M. Apsley , S. T. Millmore , N. Nikiforakis