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We consider the radiative transfer problem in a plane-parallel slab of thermal electrons in the presence of an overcritical magnetic field. Under such conditions, the magnetic field behaves as a birefringent medium for the propagating…

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A method for the fast and accurate solution of the radiative transfer equation in plane-parallel media with coherent isotropic scattering is presented. This largely analytical approach uses the formalism of meromorphic functions in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Efimov , N. V. Kryzhevoi , W. von Waldenfels , R. Wehrse

In this paper we will consider the peridynamic equation of motion which is described by a second order in time partial integro-differential equation. This equation has recently received great attention in several fields of Engineering…

Context: The solution of the nonlocal thermodynamical equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative transfer equation usually relies on stationary iterative methods, which may falsely converge in some cases. Furthermore, these methods are often unable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Julien Lambert , Eric Josselin , Nils Ryde , Alexandre Faure

This article presents an on-line tool (rttools.irap.omp.eu) and its accompanying software ressources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Lambert , F. Paletou , E. Josselin , J. -M. Glorian

The radiative transfer equation (RTE) arises in many different areas of science and engineering. In this paper, we propose and investigate a discrete-ordinate discontinuous-streamline diffusion (DODSD) method for solving the RTE, which is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Cheng Wang , Qiwei Sheng , Weimin Han

The report deals with classical and quantum descriptions of particles that interact with smooth random potentials, for example ultracold atoms in the dipole potential of an optical speckle pattern. In addition, a discussion of the link…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carsten Henkel

A nonsingular analytical solution for the transfer equation in a pure absorber is obtained in central symmetry and in a monochromatic radiation field. The native regular singularity of the equation is removed by applying a linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Aboughantous

A number of physical phenomena are described by nonlinear hyperbolic equations. Presence of discontinuous solutions motivates the necessity of development of reliable numerical methods based on the fundamental mathematical properties of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Kulikovskii , N. V. Pogorelov , A. Yu Semenov

Here we formulate and solve the 3D radiative transfer problem of the polarization of the solar continuous radiation. Our approach takes into account not only the anisotropy of the continuum radiation, but also the symmetry-breaking effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Trujillo Bueno , N. Shchukina

Our objective is to prove existence of a solution to the Dirichlet problem for an equation arising in the theory of radiation hydrodynamics to deal with the radiating energy in transparent media. We study its stationary equation with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Francesco Balducci , Sergio Segura de León

In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Juan Carlos Munoz , Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

The recent implementation of radiative transfer algorithms in numerous hydrodynamics codes has led to a dramatic improvement in studies of feedback in various astrophysical environments. However, because of methodological limitations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jordan Mirocha , Stephen Skory , Jack O. Burns , John H. Wise

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 benchmark problems and solutions for the continuum radiative transfer (RT) in a 2D disk configuration. The reliability of three Monte-Carlo and two grid-based codes is tested by comparing their results for a set of well-defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Pascucci , S. Wolf , J. Steinacker , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning , G. Niccolini , P. Woitke , B. Lopez

The energy method can be used to identify well-posed initial boundary value problems for quasi-linear, symmetric hyperbolic partial differential equations with maximally dissipative boundary conditions. A similar analysis of the discrete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis Lehner , David Neilsen , Oscar Reula , Manuel Tiglio

The numerical solution of time-dependent radiative transfer problems is challenging, both, due to the high dimension as well as the anisotropic structure of the underlying integro-partial differential equation. In this paper we propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Herbert Egger , Matthias Schlottbom

The problem of radio wave reflection from an optically thick plane monotonous layer of magnetized plasma is considered at present work. The plasma electron density irregularities are described by spatial spectrum of an arbitrary form. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Zabotin , A. G. Bronin , G. A. Zhbankov

In this paper we present a characteristic method for solving the transfer equation in differentially moving media in a curved spacetime. The method is completely general, but its capabilities are exploited at best in presence of symmetries,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Silvia Zane , Roberto Turolla , Luciano Nobili , Myris Erna

In this paper, the authors compare the security bounds for different quantum communication protocols with the numerically evaluated losses in the transmission channel, due to the interaction between the atmosphere and the photon, which is…

Optics · Physics 2008-01-02 N. Antonietti , M. Mondin , G. Catastini , G. Brida , M. Genovese