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Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

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Recently 3D hydrodynamical simulations of stellar surface convection have become feasible thanks to advances in computer technology and efficient numerical algorithms. Available observational diagnostics indicate that these models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Asplund , Remo Collet

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

A new method for solving relativistic ideal hydrodynamics in (1+3)D is developed. Longitudinal and transverse radial flows are explicitly embedded and the hydrodynamic equations are reduced to a single equation for the transverse velocity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Jinfeng Liao , Volker Koch

Multi-level non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) radiation transfer calculations have become standard throughout the stellar atmospheres community and are applied to all types of stars as well as dynamical systems such as novae and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Context. The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere continually reconnects and accelerates charged particles to high energies. Simulations of the atmosphere in three dimensions that include the effects of accelerated particles can aid our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 L. Frogner , B. V. Gudiksen

The mathematical formulation, basic concept and numerical implementation of a new meshless method for solving three dimensional fluid flow and related heat transfer problems are presented in this paper. Moving least squares approximation is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Cheng-An Wang , Hamou Sadat , Christian Prax

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 introduce a method of imposing asymmetric conditions on the velocity vector with respect to independent variables and a method of moving frame for solving the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. Seven families of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-28 Xiaoping Xu

In this paper we present a characteristic method for solving the transfer equation in differentially moving media in a curved spacetime. The method is completely general, but its capabilities are exploited at best in presence of symmetries,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Silvia Zane , Roberto Turolla , Luciano Nobili , Myris Erna

We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-13 Lars Buntemeyer , Robi Banerjee , Thomas Peters , Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz

Context. Three-dimensional non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) radiative transfer calculations are a fundamental tool for a detailed spectral analysis in stellar atmospheres, but require vast amounts of computer power. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Elias R. Udnæs , Tiago M. D. Pereira

3D non-LTE radiative transfer problems are computationally demanding, and this sets limits on the size of the problems that can be solved. So far Multilevel Accelerated Lambda Iteration (MALI) has been to the method of choice to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Johan P. Bjørgen , Jorrit Leenaarts

Context. Time-dependent, 3D radiation transfer calculations are important for the modeling of a variety of objects, from supernovae and novae to simulations of stellar variability and activity. Furthermore, time-dependent calculations can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 D. Jack , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

Observations and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar atmospheres reveal an intermittent behavior or steep gradients in physical parameters, such as magnetic field, temperature, and bulk velocities. The numerical solution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gioele Janett

A novel hybrid Monte Carlo transport scheme is demonstrated in a scene with solar illumination, scattering and absorbing 2D atmosphere, a textured reflecting mountain, and a small detector located in the sky (mounted on a satellite or a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillaume Bal , Anthony Davis , Ian Langmore

Recently there has been an increasing interest for a better understanding of ultra low Reynolds number flows. In this context we present a new setup which allows to efficiently solve the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vincent Heuveline , Peter Wittwer

Inverse design of complex flows is notoriously challenging because of the high cost of high dimensional optimization. Usually, optimization problems are either restricted to few control parameters, or adjoint-based approaches are used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Mohammed Alhashim , Kaylie Hausknecht , Michael Brenner

Motivated by the study of uniaxial crystal optics, we consider a coupled system of $3D$ anisotropic wave equations, in which they have the same speed only in one direction but distinct speeds in the other directions. Moreover, this system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Xuecheng Wang