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We describe a module for the Athena code that solves the gray equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD), based on the first two moments of the radiative transfer equation. We use a combination of explicit Godunov methods to advance the gas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Eve C. Ostriker

A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

One of the major tasks in interpretation of data from large-scale stellar surveys is to determine the fundamental atmospheric parameters such as effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity. In most on-going and upcoming…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Mashonkina

We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

The double detonation is a widely discussed explosion mechanism for Type Ia supernovae, whereby a helium shell detonation ignites a secondary detonation in the carbon/oxygen core of a white dwarf. Even for modern models that invoke…

We present a novel ray acceleration structure for radiative transfer outside of local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE), leveraging techniques from computer graphics to improve computational efficiency. By applying mipmapping (local…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Christopher M. J. Osborne

Context: Dynamical studies of irradiated circumstellar disks require an accurate treatment of radiation transport to, for example, properly determine cooling and fragmentation properties. The radiation transport algorithm should be as fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Rolf Kuiper , Ralf S. Klessen

Radiative transfer has a strong impact on the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar dense cores. We present the radiation-hydrodynamics solver we designed for the RAMSES code. The method is designed for astrophysical purposes, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Benoit Commercon , Romain Teyssier , Edouard Audit , Patrick Hennebelle , Gilles Chabrier

Aims. We present a new radiation hydrodynamics code, called "ARK-RT" which uses a two-moment model with the M1 closure relation for radiative transfer. This code aims at being ready for high-performance computing, on exascale architectures.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 H. Bloch , P. Tremblin , M. González , T. Padioleau , E. Audit

The status of the hydrodynamical modelling of nonlinear multi-mode stellar pulsations is discussed. The hydrodynamical modelling of steady double-mode (DM) pulsations has been a long-standing quest that is finally being concluded. Recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Zoltan Kollath , J. Robert Buchler

Different simplified approaches are used to account for the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effects with 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres. In certain cases, chemical abundances are derived in 1D NLTE and corrected for the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. Klevas , A. Kučinskas , M. Steffen , E. Caffau , H. -G. Ludwig

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

Hydrodynamics And Radiation Diffusion} (HARD) is an open-source application for high-performance simulations of compressible hydrodynamics with radiation-diffusion coupling. Built on the FleCSI (Flexible Computational Science…

We present a new algorithm for the identification and physical characterization of current sheets and reconnection sites in 2D and 3D large scale relativisticmagnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations. This has been implemented in the PLUTO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-29 Matteo Nurisso , Annalisa Celotti , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo

In the present research work, an attempt is made to develop a coupled non-linear turbulence-structure-damper model in a finite volume-finite difference (FV-FD) framework. Tuned liquid damper (TLD) is used as the additional damping system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 Ananya Majumdar , Biplab Ranjan Adhikary , Partha Bhattacharya

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

We describe the CRASH (Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics) code, a block adaptive mesh code for multi-material radiation hydrodynamics. The implementation solves the radiation diffusion model with the gray or multigroup method and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. van der Holst , G. Toth , I. V. Sokolov , K. G. Powell , J. P. Holloway , E. S. Myra , Q. Stout , M. L. Adams , J. E. Morel , R. P. Drake

Earlier studies have suggested that deviations from the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) play a minor role in the formation of Be II 313 nm resonance lines in solar and stellar atmospheres. Recent improvements in the atomic data allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 S. Korotin , A. Kučinskas

The interpretation of observed spectra of stars in terms of fundamental stellar properties is a key problem in astrophysics. For FGK-type stars, the radiative transfer models are often computed using the assumption of local thermodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Maria Bergemann , Thomas Nordlander

Precise fundamental atmospheric stellar parameters and abundance determination of individual elements in stars are important for all stellar population studies. Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (Non-LTE; hereafter NLTE) models are often…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Yangyang Li , Rana Ezzeddine