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We consider a diffusion equation with highly oscillatory coefficients that admits a homogenized limit. As an alternative to standard corrector problems, we introduce here an embedded corrector problem, written as a diffusion equation in the…

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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

Accurate angular quadratures are crucial for the numerical solution of three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer problems, especially when the spectral line polarisation produced by the scattering of anisotropic radiation is included. There…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jaume Jaume Bestard , Jiří Štěpán , Javier Trujillo Bueno

This work concerns the modeling of radiative transfer in anisotropic turbid media using diffusion theory. A theory for the relationship between microscopic scattering properties (i.e., an arbitrary differential scattering cross-section) and…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-14 Erik Alerstam

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

We come back to the analytical solution of the standard transfer problem in a stellar atmosphere. It consists in solving the radiative transfer equation in a homogeneous and isothermal plane-parallel atmosphere, with light scattering taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chevallier , B. Rutily

A numerical scheme is proposed for the solution of the three-dimensional radiative transfer equation with variable optical depth. We show that time-dependent ray tracing is an attractive choice for simulations of astrophysical ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Razoumov , Douglas Scott

A novel method for solving the linear radiative transport equation (RTE) in a three-dimensional homogeneous medium is proposed and illustrated with numerical examples. The method can be used with an arbitrary phase function A(s,s') with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Panasyuk , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

We apply the approach developed in our previous papers to obtain examples of solutions to the inverse spectral problem (ISP) for the canonical Hamiltonian system. One of our goals is to illustrate connections of ISP with classical tools of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Nikolai Makarov , Alexei Poltoratski

We present a novel generalization of the two-stream method of radiative transfer, which allows for the accurate treatment of radiative transfer in the presence of strong infrared scattering by aerosols. We prove that this generalization…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kevin Heng , Daniel Kitzmann

One of the biggest challenges in the field of biomedical imaging is the comprehension and the exploitation of the photon scattering through disordered media. Many studies have pursued the solution to this puzzle, achieving light-focusing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-03 Daniele Ancora , Luca Leuzzi

We establish a novel convergent iteration framework for a weak approximation of general switching diffusion. The key theoretical basis of the proposed approach is a restriction of the maximum number of switching so as to untangle and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Qinjing Qiu , Reiichiro Kawai

In this work the polarizability of a subwavelength core-shell sphere is considered, where the shell exhibits a radially inhomogeneous permittivity profile. A mathematical treatment of the elec- trostatic polarizability is formulated in…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Ari Sihvola

Achieving efficient and accurate simulation of the radiative transfer has long been a research challenge. Here we introduce the general synthetic iterative scheme as an easy-to-implement approach to address this issue. First, a macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kaiyuan Wang , Yanbing Zhang , Qi Li , Lei Wu

We consider the time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering by a bounded {\it anisotropic inhomogeneity} embedded in an unbounded {\it anisotropic} homogeneous medium. The material parameters may have discontinuities across the interface between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Otar Chkadua , Sergey E. Mikhailov , David Natroshvili

A novel method for monochromatic scalar 3D radiative transfer, designed primarily for modeling remote sensing imaging, is presented. For simulating an observation of an imaging satellite instrument, the method uses a heuristic scattering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Antti Mikkonen , Anssi Koskinen , Johanna Tamminen , Hannakaisa Lindqvist

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard

We propose a new discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) technique for the numerical solution of elliptic diffusion problems in computational domains decomposed into volumetric patches with non-matching interfaces. Due to an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Christoph Hofer , Ulrich Langer , Ioannis Toulopoulos

We consider the scattering of elastic waves by highly oscillating anisotropic periodic media with bounded support. Applying the two-scale homogenization, we first obtain a constant coefficient second-order partial differential elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Shixu Meng

We investigate integral formulations and fast algorithms for the steady-state radiative transfer equation with isotropic and anisotropic scattering. When the scattering term is a smooth convolution on the unit sphere, a model reduction step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuwei Fan , Jing An , Lexing Ying