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Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We present a scheme to solve the nonlinear multigroup radiation diffusion (MGD) equations. The method is incorporated into a massively parallel, multidimensional, Eulerian radiation-hydrodynamic code with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Shestakov , S. S. R. Offner

Red supergiants are massive evolved stars that contribute extensively to the chemical enrichment of our Galaxy. It has been shown that convection in those stars gives rise to large granules that cause surface inhomogeneities and shock waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Chiavassa , B. Freytag , T. Masseron , B. Plez

We describe RAGE, the ``Radiation Adaptive Grid Eulerian'' radiation-hydrodynamics code, including its data structures, its parallelization strategy and performance, its hydrodynamic algorithm(s), its (gray) radiation diffusion algorithm,…

In this work, we propose an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) approach for the efficient solution of multidimensional spatiotemporal integrodifferential equations. Our approach can automatically adjust the shape of RBFs and provide an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Mingtao Xia , Qijing Shen

The characteristic decomposition for GRMHD is not known in a form useful for current numerical simulations. This prevents us from using the most accurate known computational methods, such as full-wave Riemann solvers. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Saul A. Teukolsky

Radiation is typically the most time-consuming physical process in numerical models. One solution is to use machine learning methods to simulate the radiation process to improve computational efficiency. From an operational standpoint, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hao Jing , Sa Xiao , Haoyu Li , Huadong Xiao , Wei Xue

We perform a comparison between two radiative transfer algorithms commonly employed in hydrodynamical calculations of star formation: grey flux limited diffusion and the hybrid scheme, in addition we compare these algorithms to results from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 James E. Owen , Barbara Ercolano , Cathie J. Clarke

Radiative transfer describes the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an interacting medium. This process is often simulated by the use of the Monte Carlo method, which involves the probabilistic determination and tracking of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

Radiative transfer is a key component in almost all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. We present Magritte: a modern open-source software library for 3D radiative transfer. It uses a deterministic ray-tracer and formal solver, i.e.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Frederik De Ceuster , Ward Homan , Jeremy Yates , Leen Decin , Peter Boyle , James Hetherington

Radiative transfer plays a major role in high-energy astrophysics. In multiple scenarios and in a broad range of energy scales, the coupling between matter and radiation is essential to understand the interplay between theory, observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Jose López-Miralles , Jose María Martí , Manel Perucho

This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon , Stéphane Descombes , Thierry Dumont

We present a novel radiation hydrodynamics code, START, which is a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme coupled with accelerated radiative transfer. The basic idea for the acceleration of radiative transfer is parallel to the tree…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Kenji Hasegawa , Masayuki Umemura

We analyze a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation of an evolving and later collapsing pre-stellar core. Using a three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer program, we generate images at 7 micron, 15 micron, 175…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Steinacker , B. Lang , A. Burkert , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

A module for the ZEUS-2D code is described which may be used to solve the equations of radiation hydrodynamics to order unity in v/c, in the flux-limited diffusion (FLD) approximation. In this approximation, the tensor Eddington factor f…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. J. Turner , J. M. Stone

We introduce a new code for computing time-dependent continuum radiative transfer and non-equilibrium ionization states in static density fields with periodic boundaries. Our code solves the moments of the radiative transfer equation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Finlator , F. Ozel , R. Dave

We present the latest improvements in the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics (CRASH) code, a parallel block-adaptive-mesh Eulerian code for simulating high-energy-density plasmas. The implementation can solve for radiation models with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-08 B. van der Holst , G. Toth , I. V. Sokolov , B. R. Torralva , K. G. Powell , R. P. Drake

We have developed a new massively-parallel radiation-hydrodynamics code (Cosmos) for Newtonian and relativistic astrophysical problems that also includes radiative cooling, self-gravity, and non-equilibrium, multi-species chemistry. Several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Stephen D. Murray

Recently, a new framework to compute the photoionization rate in streamer discharges accurately and efficiently using the integral form and the fast multipole method (FMM) was presented. This paper further improves the efficiency of this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Bo Lin , Chijie Zhuang

Computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for space physics has become an essential area in understanding the multiscale dynamics of geophysical and astrophysical plasma processes, partially motivated by the lack of space data. Full MHD…