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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…

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Accurate accounting of particle number and 4-momentum in radiative transfer may be facilitated by the use of transport equations that allow transparent conversion between volume and surface integrals in both spacetime and momentum space.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Christian Y. Cardall

We develop a time-dependent multi-group multidimensional relativistic radiative transfer code, which is required to numerically investigate radiation from relativistic fluids involved in, e.g., gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Nozomu Tominaga , Sanshiro Shibata , Sergei I. Blinnikov

The emergence of three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of stellar atmospheres has sparked a need for efficient radiative transfer codes to calculate detailed synthetic spectra. We present RH 1.5D, a massively parallel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Han Uitenbroek

We present a general relativistic, ray-tracing radiative transfer code RAIKOU for multi-wavlength studies of spectra and images including the black hole shadows around Kerr black holes. Important radiative processes in hot plasmas around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

Common moment-based radiative transfer methods, such as flux-limited diffusion (FLD) and the M1 closure, suffer from artificial interactions between crossing beams. In protoplanetary disks, this leads to an overestimation of the midplane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 David Melon Fuksman , Mario Flock , Hubert Klahr , Giancarlo Mattia , Dhruv Muley

We present a conservative numerical method for radiation magnetohydrodynamics with frequency-dependent full transport in stationary spacetimes. This method is stable and accurate for both large and small optical depths and radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Benjamin R. Ryan , Joshua C. Dolence

We simulate convection near the solar surface, where the continuum optical depth is of order unity. Hence, to determine the radiative heating and cooling in the energy conservation equation, we must solve the radiative transfer equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Stein , Aake Nordlund

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

In astrophysical systems, radiation-matter interactions are important in transferring energy and momentum between the radiation field and the surrounding material. This coupling often makes it necessary to consider the role of radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-28 U. M. Noebauer , S. A. Sim , M. Kromer , F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt

The solar atmosphere is diagnosed by solving the polarized radiative transfer problem for plasmas in Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE). A key challenge in multidimensional NLTE diagnosis is to integrate efficiently the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 E. S. Carlin , S. Blanes , F. Casas

A radiative transfer scheme is presented, based on a moment description of the equation of radiative transfer and the so-called ``M1 closure model'' for the Eddington tensor. This model features a strictly hyperbolic transport step for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dominique Aubert , Romain Teyssier

We present the implementation of two-moment based general-relativistic multi-group radiation transport module in the $\texttt{G}$eneral-relativistic $\texttt{mu}$ltigrid $\texttt{nu}$merical ($\texttt{Gmunu}$) code. On top of solving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-10 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We describe and test an updated version of radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) in the RAMSES code, that includes three new features: i) radiation pressure on gas, ii) accurate treatment of radiation diffusion in an unresolved optically thick…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Rosdahl , R. Teyssier

The thermal radiative transfer (TRT) equations form an integro-differential system that describes the propagation and collisional interactions of photons. Computing accurate and efficient numerical solutions TRT are challenging for several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Ryan G. McClarren , James A. Rossmanith , Minwoo Shin

We developed the full magnetohydrodynamical analytical jet model that allows accurate reproducing of a transversal and longitudinal structure for a highly collimated relativistic jets. This model can be used as a setup for convenient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 E. E. Nokhrina , I. N. Pashchenko , V. A. Frolova , R. V. Todorov

An implicit method for radiative transfer in SPH is described. The diffusion approximation is used, and the hydrodynamic calculations are performed by a fully three--dimensional SPH code. Instead of the energy equation of state for an ideal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serge Viau , Pierre Bastien , Seung-Hoon Cha

We study effects of both magnetic field and radiation on unsteady free convective magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow under the influence of heat and mass transfer. An implicit finite difference scheme of Crank-Nicolson method is used to analyze…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-15 M. N. Ismail , G. F. Mohamadien , Ümit D. Göker

This is the second paper in a series in which we develop machine learning (ML) moment closure models for the radiative transfer equation (RTE). In our previous work \cite{huang2021gradient}, we proposed an approach to directly learn the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Juntao Huang , Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Luke F. Roberts , Wen-An Yong

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,…