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We describe a photon-conserving radiative transfer algorithm, using a spatially-adaptive ray tracing scheme, and its parallel implementation into the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological hydrodynamics code, Enzo. By coupling the…

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Solar and thermal radiation are critical aspects of planetary climate, with gradients in radiative energy fluxes driving heating and cooling. Climate models require that radiative transfer tools be versatile, computationally efficient, and…

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We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

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Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

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We present TreeCol, a new and efficient tree-based scheme to calculate column densities in numerical simulations. Knowing the column density in any direction at any location in space is a prerequisite for modelling the propagation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

A new, very fast method for 3D radiative transfer on fully threaded grids with arbitrarily high angular resolution is presented. The method uses completely cell-based discretization, and is ideally suited for problems with diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. O. Razoumov , C. Y. Cardall

We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

Here we report the development of SPRAY, a massively parallel GPU accelerated, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)-based, radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code designed specifically for simulating high intensity laser-plasma interactions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Min Ki Jung , Hakhyeon Kim , Su-San Park , Eung Soo Kim , Yong-Su Na , Sang June Hahn

Radiative transfer (RT) modelling is a necessary tool in the interpretation of observations of the thermal emission of interstellar dust. It is also often part of multi-physics modelling. In this context, the efficiency of radiative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Mika Juvela

We present a review of the TORUS radiation transfer and hydrodynamics code. TORUS uses a 1-D, 2-D or3-D adaptive mesh refinement scheme to store and manipulate the state variables, and solves the equation of radiative transfer using Monte…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Tim Harries , Tom Haworth , David Acreman , Ahmad Ali , Tom Douglas

The TREE method has been widely used for long-range interaction {\it N}-body problems. We have developed a parallel TREE code for two-component classical plasmas with open boundary conditions and highly non-uniform charge distributions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Byoungseon Jeon , Joel D. Kress , Lee A. Collins , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Training-free guidance enables controlled generation in diffusion and flow models, but most methods rely on gradients and assume differentiable objectives. This work focuses on training-free guidance addressing challenges from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yingqing Guo , Yukang Yang , Hui Yuan , Mengdi Wang

We describe a new implementation of a parallel Tree-SPH code with the aim to simulate Galaxy Formation and Evolution. The code has been parallelized using SHMEM, a Cray proprietary library to handle communications between the 256 processors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro

In this paper, we develop the first entirely graphic processing unit (GPU) based h-adaptive flux reconstruction (FR) method with linear trees. The adaptive solver fully operates on the GPU hardware, using a linear quadtree for two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-13 Lai Wang , Freddie Witherden , Antony Jameson

Ultrasound imaging tasks such as calibration, inverse parameter estimation, and acquisition design require models that are physically grounded, efficient, and differentiable with respect to meaningful material and system parameters. While…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 L. River Spencer , Reagan A. Cardoza , Vijay K. Dubey , Collin E. Haese , Felix Kreidel , Issam Moussa , Manuel K. Rausch , Jan N. Fuhg

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

Applications in many domains are based on a series of traversals of tree structures, and fusing these traversals together to reduce the total number of passes over the tree is a common, important optimization technique. In applications such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Laith Sakka , Kirshanthan Sundararajah , Ryan R. Newton , Milind Kulkarni

Close-range laser scanning provides detailed 3D captures of forest stands but requires efficient software for processing 3D point cloud data and extracting individual trees. Although recent studies have introduced deep learning methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Josafat-Mattias Burmeister , Andreas Tockner , Stefan Reder , Markus Engel , Rico Richter , Jan-Peter Mund , Jürgen Döllner

Today's communication networks have stringent availability requirements and hence need to rapidly restore connectivity after failures. Modern networks thus implement various forms of fast reroute mechanisms in the data plane, to bridge the…

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