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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…

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This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

Radiative transfer is an important component of hydrodynamic simulations as it determines the thermal properties of a physical system. It is especially important in cases where heating and cooling regulate significant processes, such as in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-25 Anthony Mercer , Dimitris Stamatellos , Alex Dunhill

We quantify if the chemical abundance gradients given by a dynamical model of core collapse including time-dependent changes in density and temperature differ greatly from abundances derived from static models, where the density and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 O. Sipilä , P. Caselli

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

We develop a new numerical scheme for solving the radiative transfer equation in a spherically symmetric system. This scheme does not rely on any kind of diffusion approximation and it is accurate for optically thin, thick, and intermediate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Torsten Stamer , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We have developed a new computer code, RAM, 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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew I. MacFadyen

We present a new three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamic evolution scheme coupled to dynamical spacetime evolutions which is capable of efficiently simulating stellar collapse, isolated neutron stars, black hole formation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-23 C. Reisswig , R. Haas , C. D. Ott , E. Abdikamalov , P. Moesta , D. Pollney , E. Schnetter

Combining the co-evolving chemistry, hydrodynamics and radiative transfer is an important step for star formation studies. It allows both a better link to observations and a self-consistent monitoring of the magnetic dissipation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-27 Natalia Dzyurkevich , Benoît Commerçon , Pierre Lesaffre , Dimitry Semenov

This paper presents a comprehensive numerical framework for simulating radiation-plasma systems. The radiative transfer process spans multiple flow regimes due to varying fluid opacity across different regions, necessitating a robust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Mingyu Quan , Kun Xu

We introduce the RHDLPP, a flux-limited multigroup radiation hydrodynamics numerical code designed for simulating laser-produced plasmas in diverse environments. The code bifurcates into two packages: RHDLPP-LTP for low-temperature plasmas…

Astrophysical plasmas are subject to a tight connection between magnetic fields and the diffusion of particles, which leads to an anisotropic transport of energy. Under the fluid assumption, this effect can be reduced to an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Yohan Dubois , Benoît Commerçon

Motivated by recent theoretical work on tidal disruption events and other peculiar transients, we present moving-mesh radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of radiative luminosity emitted by a central source being reprocessed by a wind-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Paul C. Duffell

We present an implementation of radiative transfer with flux-limited diffusion (FLD) for the moving-mesh code {\small AREPO} and use the method in a physical model for the formation of protostars with non-ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Alexander C. Mayer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Thorsten Naab , Oliver Zier , Alexei V. Ivlev , Tommaso Grassi , Paola Caselli , Volker Springel

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 novel numerical implementation of radiative transfer in the cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation code {\small GADGET}. It is based on a fast, robust and photon-conserving integration scheme where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Petkova , V. Springel

We present a new chemodynamical code - Ramses-CH - for use in simulating the self-consistent evolution of chemical and hydrodynamical properties of galaxies within a fully cosmological framework. We build upon the adaptive mesh refinement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Gareth Few , Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson , Daisuke Kawata , Francesco Calura , Romain Teyssier

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that combines multiresolution (MR) techniques with the flux reconstruction (FR) method to accurately and effciently simulate compressible flows. We achieve further enhancements in effciency…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yixuan Lian , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

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

In this paper, a high-order gas-kinetic scheme is developed for the equation of radiation hydrodynamics in equilibrium-diffusion limit which describes the interaction between matter and radiation. To recover RHE, the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Wenjun Sun