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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

The high resolution and sensitivity provided by proposed Atacama Large Millimeter Array will reveal new small scale structures in many sources, e.g. star forming regions. Such inhomogeneities may not have been considered in the analysis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

We analyze the line radiative transfer in protoplanetary disks using several approximate methods and a well-tested Accelerated Monte Carlo code. A low-mass flaring disk model with uniform as well as stratified molecular abundances is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ya. Pavlyuchenkov , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , St. Guilloteau , V. Pietu , R. Launhardt , A. Dutrey

Recent point-based differentiable rendering techniques have achieved significant success in high-fidelity reconstruction and fast rendering. However, due to the unstructured nature of point-based representations, they are difficult to apply…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Zherui Qiu , Juyong Zhang

X-ray tomographic reconstruction typically uses voxel basis functions to represent volumetric images. Due to the structure in voxel basis representations, efficient ray-tracing methods exist allowing fast, GPU accelerated implementations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ander Biguri , Hossein Towsyfyan , Richard Boardman , Thomas Blumensath

We discuss an implementation of our 3D radiative transfer (3DRT) framework with the OpenCL paradigm for general GPU computing. We implement the kernel for solving the 3DRT problem in Cartesian coordinates with periodic boundary conditions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

The design of new x-ray phase contrast imaging setups often relies on Monte Carlo simulations for prospective parameter studies. Monte Carlo simulations are known to be accurate but time consuming, leading to long simulation times,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jonathan Sanctorum , Jan Sijbers , Jan De Beenhouwer

We present a new Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code, which we have used to model the cyclotron line features in the environment of a variable magnetic field and plasma density. The code accepts an input continuum and performs only the line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Sandeep Kumar , Suman Bala , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We present Deformable Voxel Grids (DVGs) for 3D shapes comparison and processing. It consists of a voxel grid which is deformed to approximate the silhouette of a shape, via energy-minimization. By interpreting the DVG as a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphaël Groscot , Laurent D. Cohen

Computer simulation with Monte Carlo is an important tool to investigate the function and equilibrium properties of many systems with biological and soft matter materials solvable in solvents. The appropriate treatment of long-range…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zecheng Gan , Zhenli Xu

We implement a Monte Carlo radiative transfer method, that uses a large number of monochromatic luminosity packets to represent the radiation transported through a system. These packets are injected into the system and interact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Stamatellos , A. P. Whitworth

In the preliminary trajectory design of the multi-target rendezvous problem, a model that can quickly estimate the cost of the orbital transfer is essential. The estimation of the transfer time using solar sail between two arbitrary orbits…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yu Song , Shengping Gong

Aims. Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) simulations are a powerful tool for understanding the role of dust in astrophysical systems and its influence on observations. However, due to the strong coupling of the radiation field and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Majda Smole , João Rino-Silvestre , Santiago González-Gaitán , Marko Stalevski

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

An implementation of the Reverse Monte Carlo algorithm is presented for the study of amorphous tetrahedral semiconductors. By taking into account a number of constraints that describe the tetrahedral bonding geometry along with the radial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Parthapratim Biswas , Raymond Atta-Fynn , D. A. Drabold

Accurate photometric and kinematic modelling of disc galaxies requires the inclusion of radiative transfer models. Due to the complexity of the radiative transfer equation (RTE), sophisticated techniques are required. Various techniques…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Maarten Baes , Herwig Dejonghe

In this paper we present two efficient implementations of the diffusion approximation to be employed in Monte Carlo computations of radiative transfer in dusty media of massive circumstellar disks. The aim is to improve the accuracy of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Min , C. P. Dullemond , C. Dominik , A. de Koter , J. W. Hovenier

Representations of atomic orbitals based on Monte-Carlo (MC) approaches are not always correct when using various sets of orthogonal coordinates other than Cartesian coordinates. The analysis proposed here gives elements for a proper use of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Jean Hoarau , Jean-Claude Rayez

We present two types of numerical prescriptions that accelerate the radiative transfer calculation around point sources within a three-dimensional Cartesian grid by using the oct-tree structure for the distribution of radiation sources. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Takashi Okamoto , Kohji Yoshikawa , Masayuki Umemura

A new iterative method for non-LTE multilevel polarized radiative transfer in hydrogen lines is presented. Iterative methods (such as the Jacobi method) tend to damp out high-frequency components of the error fast, but converges poorly due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jiri Stepan