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A new code and methodology are introduced for solving the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations in fixed background spacetimes using time-explicit, finite-volume discretization. The code has options for solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Jay D. Salmonson

We introduce a variant of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm to address large-deviation statistics in stochastic hydrodynamics. Based on the path-integral approach to stochastic (partial) differential equations, our HMC algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 G. Margazoglou , L. Biferale , R. Grauer , K. Jansen , D. Mesterházy , T. Rosenow , R. Tripiccione

In this paper we present a major update to the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code cuHARM, which adds fully covariant treatment of radiation transport and the subsequent radiation backreaction on the dynamics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 John Wallace , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

Detection of induced polarisation (IP) effects in airborne electromagnetic (AEM) measurements does not yet have an established methodology. This contribution develops a Bayesian approach to the IP-detectability problem using decoupled…

Applications · Statistics 2021-09-03 Laurence Davies , Alan Yusen Ley-Cooper , Matthew Sutton , Christopher Drovandi

The behavior of the one-dimensional random-force-driven Burgers equation is investigated in the path integral formalism on a discrete space-time lattice. We show that by means of Monte Carlo methods one may evaluate observables, such as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 P. Düben , D. Homeier , K. Jansen , D. Mesterhazy , G. Münster

We describe a general radiative equilibrium and temperature correction procedure for use in Monte Carlo radiation transfer codes with sources of temperature-independent opacity, such as astrophysical dust. The technique utilizes the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 J. E. Bjorkman , Kenneth Wood

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a popular Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that generates proposals for a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm by simulating the dynamics of a Hamiltonian system. However, HMC is sensitive to large time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-15 Xiaoyu Lu , Valerio Perrone , Leonard Hasenclever , Yee Whye Teh , Sebastian J. Vollmer

In a multi-electrode device, the motion of free charge carriers generated by ionizing radiation induces currents on all the electrodes surrounding the active region [1]. The amount of charge induced in each sensitive electrode is a function…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-14 Jacopo Forneris , David Jamieson , Gabriele Giacomini , Changyi Yang , Ettore Vittone

Direct observations of compact objects, in the form of radiation spectra, gravitational waves from VIRGO/LIGO, and forthcoming direct imaging, are currently one of the primary source of information on the physics of plasmas in extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Lorenzo Sironi

In this work the path integral formulation for rigid rotors, proposed by M\"user and Berne [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 2638 (1996)], is described in detail. It is shown how this formulation can be used to perform Monte Carlo simulations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-08 Eva G. Noya , Luis M. Sesé , Rafael Ramírez , Carl McBride , Maria M. Conde , Carlos Vega

We propose and analyze a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm for efficient simulation of wave propagation modeled by the Helmholtz equation in a bounded region in which the refractive index is random and spatially heterogenous. Our focus is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 M. Ganesh , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan

Radiation transport plays a crucial role in star formation models, as certain questions within this field cannot be accurately addressed without taking it into account. Given the high complexity of the interstellar medium from which stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Richard Wünsch

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

We present a novel numerical implementation of radiative transfer in the cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation code {\small GADGET}. It is based on a fast, robust and photon-conserving integration scheme where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Petkova , V. Springel

In a typical finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation, estimators for simple static observables such as specific heat and magnetization are known. With a great deal of system-specific manual labor, one can sometimes also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-30 Nic Ezzell , Itay Hen

We introduce AREPO-RT, a novel radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code AREPO. Our method solves the moment-based radiative transfer equations using the M1 closure relation. We achieve second order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Rahul Kannan , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Ryan McKinnon , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

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

This work describes a new 1D hybrid approach for modeling atmospheric pressure discharges featuring complex chemistry. In this approach electrons are described fully kinetically using Particle-In-Cell/Monte-Carlo (PIC/MCC) scheme, whereas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Denis Eremin , Torben Hemke , Thomas Mussenbrock

We explore the physics of relativistic radiation mediated shocks (RRMSs) in the regime where photon advection dominates over photon generation. For this purpose, a novel iterative method for deriving a self-consistent steady-state structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Hirotaka Ito , Amir Levinson , Boris E. Stern , Shigehiro Nagataki

We describe an extension of the Enzo code to enable fully-coupled radiation hydrodynamical simulation of inhomogeneous reionization in large $\sim (100 Mpc)^3$ cosmological volumes with thousands to millions of point sources. We solve all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael L. Norman , Daniel R. Reynolds , Geoffrey C. So , Robert P. Harkness , John H. Wise