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We present a ray tracing code to compute integrated cosmological observables on the fly in AMR N-body simulations. Unlike conventional ray tracing techniques, our code takes full advantage of the time and spatial resolution attained by the…

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We study ray reordering as a tool for increasing the performance of existing GPU ray tracing implementations. We focus on ray reordering that is fully agnostic to the particular trace kernel. We summarize the existing methods for computing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniel Meister , Jakub Bokšanský , Michael Guthe , Jiří Bittner

This paper describes the design and implementation of our new multi-group, multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code Fornax and provides a suite of code tests to validate its application in a wide range of physical regimes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Joshua C. Dolence , Adam Burrows , David Radice , David Vartanyan

Full-physics cosmological simulations are powerful tools for studying the formation and evolution of structure in the universe but require extreme computational resources. Here, we train a convolutional neural network to use a cheaper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Peter Harrington , Mustafa Mustafa , Max Dornfest , Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić

We describe RAGE, the ``Radiation Adaptive Grid Eulerian'' radiation-hydrodynamics code, including its data structures, its parallelization strategy and performance, its hydrodynamic algorithm(s), its (gray) radiation diffusion algorithm,…

Implementation details and test cases of a newly developed hydrodynamic code, AMRA, are presented. The numerical scheme exploits the adaptive mesh refinement technique coupled to modern high-resolution schemes which are suitable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomek Plewa , Ewald Mueller

Radiative transfer is a notoriously difficult and computationally demanding problem. Yet, it is an indispensable ingredient in nearly all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. Choosing an appropriate discretization scheme is a crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Frederik De Ceuster , Jan Bolte , Ward Homan , Silke Maes , Jolien Malfait , Leen Decin , Jeremy Yates , Peter Boyle , James Hetherington

Scientific optical 3D modeling requires the possibility to implement highly flexible and customizable mathematical models as well as high computing power. However, established ray tracing software for optical design and modeling purposes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrej Keksel , Samuel Schmidt , Dietrich Beck , Jörg Seewig

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) is becoming a prevalent data representation for scientific visualization. Resulting from large fluid mechanics simulations, the data is usually cell centric, imposing a number of challenges for high quality…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stefan Zellmann , Qi Wu , Alper Sahistan , Kwan-Liu Ma , Ingo Wald

We compare the predictions of four different algorithms for the distribution of ionized gas during the Epoch of Reionization. These algorithms are all used to run a 100 Mpc/h simulation of reionization with the same initial conditions. Two…

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We present a new massively parallel code for N-body and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of modified gravity models. The code employs a multigrid-accelerated Newton-Gauss-Seidel relaxation solver on an adaptive mesh to efficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ewald Puchwein , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel

Aims. We present a new radiation hydrodynamics code, called "ARK-RT" which uses a two-moment model with the M1 closure relation for radiative transfer. This code aims at being ready for high-performance computing, on exascale architectures.…

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Ray tracing has long been the holy grail of real time rendering. This technique, commonly used for photo realism, simulates the physical behavior of light, at the cost of being computationally heavy. With the introduction of Nvidia RTX…

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Radiative transfer plays a key role in the star formation process. Due to a high computational cost, radiation-hydrodynamics simulations performed up to now have mainly been carried out in the grey approximation. In recent years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthias González , Neil Vaytet , Benoît Commerçon , Jacques Masson

We develop a numerical scheme for solving a fully special relativistic resistive radiation magnetohydrodynamics. Our code guarantees conservations of total mass, momentum and energy. Radiation energy density and radiation flux are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

We analyze the mixed frame equations of radiation hydrodynamics under the approximations of flux-limited diffusion and a thermal radiation field, and derive the minimal set of evolution equations that includes all terms that are of leading…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee , John Bolstad

Ray tracing accelerated with graphics processing units (GPUs) is an accurate and efficient simulation technique of wireless communication channels. In this paper, we extend a GPU-accelerated ray tracer (RT) to support the effects of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Sara Sandh , Hamed Radpour , Benjamin Rainer , Markus Hofer , Thomas Zemen

Ray tracing is a widely used technique for modeling optical systems, involving sequential surface-by-surface computations, which can be computationally intensive. We propose Ray2Ray, a novel method that leverages implicit neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shiva Sinaei , Chuanjun Zheng , Kaan Akşit , Daisuke Iwai

Numerical radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) for non-relativistic flows is a challenging problem because it encompasses processes acting over a very broad range of timescales, and where the relative importance of these processes often varies by…

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