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Inversion codes for the polarized radiative transfer equation can be used to infer the temperature $T$, line-of-sight velocity $v_{\rm los}$, and magnetic field $\rm{\bf B}$ as a function of the continuum optical-depth $\tau_{\rm c}$.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 J. M. Borrero , A. Pastor Yabar , M. Rempel , B. Ruiz Cobo

Within the context of a viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model with anisotropic heat transport and cross-field mass diffusion, we introduce novel three-term representations for the magnetic field (background vacuum field, field line…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Nikita Nikulsin , Matthias Hoelzl , Alessandro Zocco , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter

The computation of the radiative transfer equation is expensive mainly due to two stiff terms: the transport term and the collision operator. The stiffness in the former comes from the fact that particles (such as photons) travels at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Qin Li , Li Wang

A well-known approach to describe the dynamics of an open quantum system is to compute the master equation evolving the reduced density matrix of the system. This approach plays an important role in describing excitation transfer through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Kimara Naicker , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

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 present a comprehensive analytical study of radiative transfer using the method of moments and include the effects of non-isotropic scattering in the coherent limit. Within this unified formalism, we derive the governing equations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kevin Heng , João M. Mendonça , Jae-Min Lee

We address the linear-mode analysis performed near an equilibrium configuration in the fluid rest frame with a dynamical magnetic field perturbed on a constant configuration. We develop a simple and general algorithm for an analytic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Zhe Fang , Koichi Hattori , Jin Hu

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

In this paper, we develop an efficient asymptotic-preserving (AP) Monte Carlo (MC) method for frequency-dependent radiative transfer equations (RTEs), which is based on the AP-MC method proposed for the gray RTEs in \cite{shi2023efficient}.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Yiyang Hong , Yi Shi , Yi Cai , Tao Xiong

We propose a time-adaptive predictor/multi-corrector method to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations, based on the generalized-$\alpha$ scheme that provides user-control on the numerical dissipation and second-order accuracy in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Nicolas A. Labanda , Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor M. Calo

Context: The solution of the nonlocal thermodynamical equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative transfer equation usually relies on stationary iterative methods, which may falsely converge in some cases. Furthermore, these methods are often unable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Julien Lambert , Eric Josselin , Nils Ryde , Alexandre Faure

We present TRAPHIC, a novel radiative transfer scheme for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. TRAPHIC is designed for use in simulations exhibiting a wide dynamic range in physical length scales and containing a large number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andreas H. Pawlik , Joop Schaye

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

An efficient computational algorithm to implement a local operator approach to partitioning electronic energy in general molecular systems is presented. This approach, which rigorously defines the electronic energy on any subsystem within a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 Jayashree Nagesh , Artur F. Izmaylov , Paul Brumer

We derive a consistent set of moments equations for CR-magnetohydrodynamics, assuming a gyrotropic distribution function (DF). Unlike previous efforts we derive a closure, akin to the M1 closure in radiation hydrodynamics (RHD), that is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Iryna S. Butsky

The derivation of the time-dependent variational equations of the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method for high-dimensional quantum propagation is revisited from the perspective of tangent space projection methods. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Matteo Bonfanti , Irene Burghardt

We report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation-magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, which expands the two-moment, $\bf{M}_1$, radiation treatment from grey to multi-frequency transport, including Doppler and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile

Aims. We present a new radiation hydrodynamics code, called "ARK-RT" which uses a two-moment model with the M1 closure relation for radiative transfer. This code aims at being ready for high-performance computing, on exascale architectures.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 H. Bloch , P. Tremblin , M. González , T. Padioleau , E. Audit

This paper presents entropy symmetrization and high-order accurate entropy stable schemes for the relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations. It is shown that the conservative RMHD equations are not symmetrizable and do not admit a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Kailiang Wu , Chi-Wang Shu