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We describe a novel adaptive ray tracing scheme to solve the equation of radiative transfer around point sources in hydrodynamical simulations. The angular resolution adapts to the local hydrodynamical resolution and hence is of use for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tom Abel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We investigate the concept of rendering production-style content with full path tracing in a data-distributed fashion -- that is, with multiple collaborating nodes and/or GPUs that each store only part of the model. In particular, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ingo Wald , Steven G Parker

We present a networked, high performance graphics system that combines dynamic, high quality, ray traced global illumination computed on a server with direct illumination and primary visibility computed on a client. This approach provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Michael Stengel , Zander Majercik , Benjamin Boudaoud , Morgan McGuire

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…

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Recent advances in random-walk particle-tracking have enabled direct simulation of mixing and reactions on particles by allowing the particles to interact with each other using a multi-point mass transfer scheme. The mass transfer scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Nicholas B. Engdahl , Michael J. Schmidt , David A. Benson

We present a largely improved version of CRASH, a 3-D radiative transfer code that treats the effects of ionizing radiation propagating through a given inhomogeneous H/He cosmological density field, on the physical conditions of the gas.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Maselli , A. Ferrara , B. Ciardi

Frequently, the design of physicochemical processes requires screening of large numbers of alternative designs with complex geometries. These geometries may result in conformal meshes which introduce stability issues, significant…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 E. J. Monte , J. Lowman , N. M. Abukhdeir

We present a numerical implementation of radiative transfer based on an explicitly photon-conserving advection scheme, where radiative fluxes over the cell interfaces of a structured or unstructured mesh are calculated with a second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margarita Petkova , Volker Springel

Numerical solution of reaction-diffusion equations in three dimensions is one of the most challenging applied mathematical problems. Since these simulations are very time consuming, any ideas and strategies aiming at the reduction of CPU…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Ferenc Molnar , Ferenc Izsak , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

We describe the design, implementation and performance of the new hybrid parallelization scheme in our Monte Carlo radiative transfer code SKIRT, which has been used extensively for modeling the continuum radiation of dusty astrophysical…

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This paper presents an efficient parallel radiative transfer-based inverse-problem solver for time-domain optical tomography. The radiative transfer equation provides a physically accurate model for the transport of photons in biological…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 E. L. Gaggioli , O. P. Bruno

The Ray-Casting algorithm is an important method for fast real-time surface display from 3D medical images. Based on the Ray-Casting algorithm, a novel parallel Ray-Casting algorithm is proposed in this paper. A novel operation is…

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We implemented a fast Reciprocal Monte Carlo algorithm, to accurately solve radiative heat transfer in turbulent flows of non-grey participating media that can be coupled to fully resolved turbulent flows, namely to Direct Numerical…

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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

Context: Radiative transfer modelling of expanding stellar envelopes is an important task in their analysis. To account for inhomogeneities and deviations from spherical symmetry, it is necessary to develop a 3D approach to radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Brankica Kubátová , Markus Kromer , Jiří Krtička

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

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