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A formal derivation is presented of the energy transfer rate between radiation and matter due to the scattering of an isotropic distribution of resonant photons. The derivation is developed in the context of the two-level atom in the…

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We introduce the notion of asymptotic integrability into the theory of nonlinear wave equations. It means that the Hamiltonian structure of equations describing propagation of high-frequency wave packets is preserved by hydrodynamic…

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Solving the null geodesic equations for a ray of light is a difficult task even considering a stationary spacetime. The problem becomes even more difficult if the electromagnetic signal propagates through a flowing optical medium. Indeed,…

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The equation $u_t = \Delta u + u^p$ with homegeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions has solutions with blow-up if $p > 1$. An adaptive time-step procedure is given to reproduce the asymptotic behvior of the solutions in the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pablo Groisman

We study the long-time asymptotics of prototypical non-linear diffusion equations. Specifically, we consider the case of a non-degenerate diffusivity function that is a (non-negative) polynomial of the dependent variable of the problem. We…

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We consider solutions in frequency bands of dispersive equations on the line defined by Fourier multipliers, these solutions being considered as wave packets. In this paper, a refinement of an existing method permitting to expand…

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The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

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The "Reduced Speed of Light" (RSL) approximation is commonly used to speed up radiative transfer calculations in cosmological simulations. However, it has been shown previously that the RSL approximation leads to photon non-conservation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We derive approximate iterative analytical solutions of the non-extensive Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation. The approximate solutions almost overlap with the exact solution for a considerably wide range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Trambak Bhattacharyya

In this paper we approximate the radiative transfer equations by the method of moments, constructing mesoscopic approximations of arbitrary order of the otherwise microscopic system. To define the necessary closure a minimum entropy…

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In this work, we extend the solid harmonics derivation, which was used by Ackroyd et al to derive the steady-state SP$_N$ equations, to transient problems. The derivation expands the angular flux in ordinary surface harmonics but uses…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Can Pu , Ryan G. McClarren

Here we aim at justifying rigorously different types of physically relevant diffusive limits for radiative flows. For simplicity, we consider the barotropic situation, and adopt the so-called P1-approximation of the radiative transfer…

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We study the long-time behavior of localized solutions to linear or semilinear parabolic equations in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $n \ge 2$, assuming that the diffusion matrix depends on the space variable $x$ and has a finite…

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Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Neil V. Budko

Asymptotic approximations ($n \to \infty$) to the truncation errors $r_n = - \sum_{\nu=0}^{\infty} a_{\nu}$ of infinite series $\sum_{\nu=0}^{\infty} a_{\nu}$ for special functions are constructed by solving a system of linear equations.…

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Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…

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We consider the transmission eigenvalues for a bounded scatterer with a periodically varying index of refraction, and derive the first order corrections to the limiting transmission eigenvalues. We assume the scatterer contrast to be of one…

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In neuroscience, the distribution of a decision time is modelled by means of a one-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation with time-dependent boundaries and space-time-dependent drift. Efficient approximation of the solution to this equation…

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We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in narrow random channels. We approximate the generalized solution to this equation by the corresponding one on a random graph. By making use of large deviation analysis we study the asymptotic wave…

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