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Due to its accuracy and generality, Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) has emerged as the prevalent method for Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in arbitrary geometries. The standard MCRT encounters a significant efficiency barrier in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Aaron Smith , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Volker Bromm , Milos Milosavljevic

This paper presents multilevel hybrid transport (MLHT) methods for solving the neutral-particle Boltzmann transport equation. The proposed MLHT methods are formulated on a sequence of spatial grids using a multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Vincent N. Novellino , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

In this article we offer some modification of Monte-Carlo method for multiple parametric integral computation and solving of a linear integral Fredholm equation of a second kind (well posed problem). We prove that the rate of convergence of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-28 E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

This paper continues our treatment of the Neutron Transport Equation (NTE) building on the work in [arXiv:1809.00827v2], [arXiv:1810.01779v4] and [arXiv:1901.00220v3], which describes the flux of neutrons through inhomogeneous fissile…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Alexander M. G. Cox , Simon C. Harris , Andreas E. Kyprianou , Minmin Wang

We describe a Monte Carlo radiative transport code intended for calculating spectra of hot, optically thin plasmas in full general relativity. The version we describe here is designed to model hot accretion flows in the Kerr metric and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Monika Moscibrodzka , Po Kin Leung

Neutrino-matter interactions play an important role in the post-merger evolution of neutron star-neutron star and black hole-neutron star mergers. Most notably, they determine the properties of the bright optical/infrared transients…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Lawerence E. Kidder , Ronny Nguyen , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

(Context) Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) is a widely used technique to model the interaction between radiation and a medium, and plays an important role in astrophysical modelling and when comparing those models with observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Bert Vandenbroucke , Peter Camps

We review the basic outline of the highly successful diffusion Monte Carlo technique commonly used in contexts ranging from electronic structure calculations to rare event simulation and data assimilation, and propose a new class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Lek-Heng Lim , Jonathan Weare

We solve the radiative transfer equation (RTE) in anisotropically scattering media as an infinite series. Each series term represents a distinct number of scattering events, with analytical solutions derived for zero and single scattering.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Vladimir Allakhverdian , Dmitry V. Naumov

The Monte Carlo method is the most popular technique to perform radiative transfer simulations in a general 3D geometry. The algorithms behind and acceleration techniques for Monte Carlo radiative transfer are discussed extensively in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-29 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

We present an integral-based technique (IBT) algorithm to accelerate supernova (SN) radiative transfer calculations. The algorithm utilizes ``integral packets'', which are calculated by the path integral of the Monte-Carlo energy packets,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Xingzhuo Chen , Lifan Wang , Daniel Kasen

The theory and numerical modelling of radiation processes and radiative transfer play a key role in astrophysics: they provide the link between the physical properties of an object and the radiation it emits. In the modern era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ulrich M. Noebauer , Stuart A. Sim

Path planning is a crucial algorithmic approach for designing robot behaviors. Sampling-based approaches, like rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs) or probabilistic roadmaps, are prominent algorithmic solutions for path planning problems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 T. Dam , G. Chalvatzaki , J. Peters , J. Pajarinen

In this work, we introduce a fast numerical algorithm to solve the time-dependent radiative transport equation (RTE). Our method uses the integral formulation of RTE and applies the treecode algorithm to reduce the computational complexity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong

We introduce the Quantization Monte Carlo method to solve thermal radiative transport equations with possibly several collision regimes, ranging from few collisions to massive number of collisions per time unit. For each particle in a given…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

We offer in this article some modification of Monte-Carlo method for solving of a linear integral Fredholm's equation of a second kind (Fredholm's well posed problem). We prove that the rate of convergence of offered method is optimal under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

This work demonstrates algorithms to accurately compute solutions to thermal radiation transport problems using a reduced floating-point precision implementation of the Implicit Monte Carlo method. Several techniques falling into the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Simon Butson , Mathew Cleveland , Alex Long , Todd Palmer
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