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This work presents efficient solution techniques for radiative transfer in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics discretization. Two choices that impact efficiency are how the material and radiation energy are coupled, which determines the…

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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

We describe the CRASH (Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics) code, a block adaptive mesh code for multi-material radiation hydrodynamics. The implementation solves the radiation diffusion model with the gray or multigroup method and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. van der Holst , G. Toth , I. V. Sokolov , K. G. Powell , J. P. Holloway , E. S. Myra , Q. Stout , M. L. Adams , J. E. Morel , R. P. Drake

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

Magnetohydrodynamics is an important tool to study the dynamics of plasma Space Physics. In this context, we introduce a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic solver with divergence-cleaning in the adaptive multiresolution CARMEN code. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We present a set of new numerical methods that are relevant to calculating radiation pressure terms in hydrodynamics calculations, with a particular focus on massive star formation. The radiation force is determined from a Monte Carlo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim J. Harries

The transport of energy through radiation is very important in many astrophysical phenomena. In dynamical problems the time-dependent equations of radiation hydrodynamics have to be solved. We present a newly developed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan M. Kolb , Matthias Stute , Wilhelm Kley , Andrea Mignone

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

Radiation controls the dynamics and energetics of many astrophysical environments. To capture the coupling between the radiation and matter, however, is often a physically complex and computationally expensive endeavour. We develop a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 N. Moens , J. O. Sundqvist , I. El Mellah , L. Poniatowski , J. Teunissen , R. Keppens

Radiation hydrodynamics describes the interaction between high-temperature hypersonic plasmas and the radiation they emit or absorb, a coupling that plays a central role in many astrophysical phenomena related to accretion and ejection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Gonzague Radureau

A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

We describe the structure and implementation of a radiation hydrodynamic solver for MANGA, the moving-mesh hydrodynamics module of the large-scale parallel code, Charm N-body GrAvity solver (ChaNGa). We solve the equations of time dependent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Philip Chang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

A solution of the radiative-transfer problem in arbitrary velocity fields introduced in a previous paper, has limitations in its applicability. For large-scale applications, the methods described also require large memory sets that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 S. Knop , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

We present a new algorithm to solve the equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in a frequency-integrated, two-moment formulation. Novel features of the algorithm include i) the adoption of a non-local Variable Eddington Tensor (VET)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Shyam H. Menon , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Rolf Kuiper , Benjamin D. Wibking , Manuel Jung

Radiative transfer is a fundamental process in astrophysics, essential for both interpreting observations and modeling thermal and dynamical feedback in simulations via ionizing radiation and photon pressure. However, numerically solving…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Rune Rost , Lorenzo Branca , Tobias Buck

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

We have developed a new computer code, RELDAFNA, to solve the conservative equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on parallel computers. We have implemented a characteristic-wise, finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Ygal Y. Klein

Here we report the development of SPRAY, a massively parallel GPU accelerated, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)-based, radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code designed specifically for simulating high intensity laser-plasma interactions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Min Ki Jung , Hakhyeon Kim , Su-San Park , Eung Soo Kim , Yong-Su Na , Sang June Hahn

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson