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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

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

Monte Carlo techniques based on indivisible energy packets are described for computing light curves and spectra for 3-D supernovae. The radiative transfer is time-dependent and includes all effects of O(v/c). Monte Carlo quantization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Lucy

The radiation hydrodynamics equations for smoothed particle hydrodynamics are derived by operator splitting the radiation and hydrodynamics terms, including necessary terms for material motion, and discretizing each of the sets of equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Brody R. Bassett , J. Michael Owen , Thomas A. Brunner

We present a numerical code for radiation hydrodynamics designed as a module for the freely available PLUTO code. We adopt a gray approximation and include radiative transfer following a two-moment approach by imposing the M1 closure to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Hubert Klahr , Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

The theory of radiative transfer provides the link between the physical conditions in an astrophysical object and the observable radiation which it emits. Thus accurately modelling radiative transfer is often a necessary part of testing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Sim , M. Kromer , F. K. Roepke , E. I. Sorokina , S. I. Blinnikov , D. Kasen , W. Hillebrandt

We present a review of the TORUS radiation transfer and hydrodynamics code. TORUS uses a 1-D, 2-D or3-D adaptive mesh refinement scheme to store and manipulate the state variables, and solves the equation of radiative transfer using Monte…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Tim Harries , Tom Haworth , David Acreman , Ahmad Ali , Tom Douglas

This work demonstrates algorithms to accurately compute solutions to thermal radiation transport problems using a reduced floating-point precision implementation of the Implicit Monte Carlo method. Several techniques falling into the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Simon Butson , Mathew Cleveland , Alex Long , Todd Palmer

Radiation transport plays a crucial role in star formation models, as certain questions within this field cannot be accurately addressed without taking it into account. Given the high complexity of the interstellar medium from which stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Richard Wünsch

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

Time-dependent electromagnetic signatures from core-collapse supernovae are the result of detailed transport of the shock-deposited and radioactively-powered radiation through the stellar ejecta. Due to the complexity of the underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Benny T. -H. Tsang , Jared A. Goldberg , Lars Bildsten , Daniel Kasen

We present a new direct simulation Monte-Carlo method for solving the relativistic Boltzmann equation. We solve numerically the 2-dimensional Boltzmann equation using this new algorithm. We find that elliptic flow from this transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Clement Gombeaud , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We investigate energy transport in several two-level atom or spin-1/2 models by a direct coupling to heat baths of different temperatures. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a recently derived quantum master equation which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mathias Michel , Ortwin Hess , Hannu Wichterich , Jochen Gemmer

Ionising feedback from massive stars dramatically affects the interstellar medium local to star forming regions. Numerical simulations are now starting to include enough complexity to produce morphologies and gas properties that are not too…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 D. A. Hubber , B. Ercolano , J. Dale

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

We introduce the Quantization Monte Carlo method to solve thermal radiative transport equations with possibly several collision regimes, ranging from few collisions to massive number of collisions per time unit. For each particle in a given…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

We present a formulation for multigroup radiation hydrodynamics that is correct to order $O(v/c)$ using the comoving-frame approach and the flux-limited diffusion approximation. We describe a numerical algorithm for solving the system,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 W. Zhang , L. Howell , A. Almgren , A. Burrows , J. Dolence , J. Bell

Kinetic approaches are routinely employed to simulate the dynamics of systems that are too rarified to be described by the Navier-Stokes equations. However, generally they are far too computationally expensive to be applied for systems that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-18 Irina Sagert , Dirk Colbry , Terrance Strother , Rodney Pickett , Wolfgang Bauer

We present a new framework for radiation hydrodynamics simulations. Gas dynamics is modelled by the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, whereas radiation transfer is simulated via a time-dependent Monte-Carlo approach that traces…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Seung-Hoon Cha , Alexander Hobbs