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We develop a Ly-alpha radiative transfer (RT) Monte Carlo code for cosmological simulations.High resolution,along with appropriately treated cooling can result in simulated environments with very high optical depths.Thus,solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Argyro Tasitsiomi

Eyring theory provides a convenient approximation to the rate of a chemical reaction, as it uses only local information evaluated near extremal points of a given potential energy surface. However, in cases of pronounced anharmonicity and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Christian W. Binder , Johannes K. Krondorfer , Andreas W. Hauser

In solar physics, a severe numerical challenge for modern simulations is properly representing a transition region between the million-degree hot corona and a much cooler plasma of about 10000 K (e.g., the upper chromosphere or a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Yu-Hao Zhou , Wen-Zhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

We present a light and fast, public available, ray-tracer {\tt Splotch} software tool which supports the effective visualization of cosmological simulations data. We describe the algorithm it relies on, which is designed in order to deal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Dolag , M. Reinecke , C. Gheller , S. Imboden

An effective computer program for three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamical model has been developed. It implements a new approach to the early hot phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The computer program simulates time-space…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Kikola , Wiktor Peryt , Yuri M. Sinyukov , Marcin Slodkowski , Marek Szuba

Context. The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere continually reconnects and accelerates charged particles to high energies. Simulations of the atmosphere in three dimensions that include the effects of accelerated particles can aid our…

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The treatment of radiative transfer with multiple radiation sources is a critical challenge in simulations of star formation and the interstellar medium. In this paper we present the novel TreeRay method for solving general radiative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Richard Wünsch , Stefanie Walch , František Dinnbier , Daniel Seifried , Sebastian Haid , Andre Klepitko , Anthony P. Whitworth , Jan Palouš

Radiative transfer has a strong impact on the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar dense cores. We present the radiation-hydrodynamics solver we designed for the RAMSES code. The method is designed for astrophysical purposes, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Benoit Commercon , Romain Teyssier , Edouard Audit , Patrick Hennebelle , Gilles Chabrier

We present a numerical code for radiation hydrodynamics designed as a module for the freely available PLUTO code. We adopt a gray approximation and include radiative transfer following a two-moment approach by imposing the M1 closure to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Hubert Klahr , Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

For simulation studies of (macro) molecular liquids it would be of significant interest to be able to adjust or increase the level of resolution within one region of space, while allowing for the free exchange of molecules between open…

We describe an extension of the cosmological hydrodynamics code ENZO to include the self-consistent transport of ionizing radiation modeled in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. A novel feature of our algorithm is a coupled implicit…

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Radiation controls the dynamics and energetics of many astrophysical environments. To capture the coupling between the radiation and matter, however, is often a physically complex and computationally expensive endeavour. We develop a…

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We present an extension of TRAPHIC, the method for radiative transfer of ionising radiation in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that we introduced in Pawlik & Schaye (2008). The new version keeps all advantages of the original…

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We propose a novel ray reordering technique to accelerate the ray tracing process by encoding and sorting rays prior to traversal. Instead of spatial coordinates, our method encodes rays according to the cuts of the hierarchical…

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The radiative transfer equations are well-known, but radiation parametrizations in atmospheric models are computationally expensive. A promising tool for accelerating parametrizations is the use of machine learning techniques. In this…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Menno A. Veerman , Robert Pincus , Robin Stoffer , Caspar van Leeuwen , Damian Podareanu , Chiel C. van Heerwaarden

We present TREVR (Tree-based REVerse Ray Tracing), a general algorithm for computing the radiation field, including absorption, in astrophysical simulations. TREVR is designed to handle large numbers of sources and absorbers; it is based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 J. J. Grond , R. M. Woods , J. W. Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman

X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity (XRMR) is a powerful method to determine the optical, structural and magnetic depth profiles of a variety of thin films. Here, we investigate samples of different complexity all measured at the Pt L$_3$…

Ray tracing (RT) is instrumental in 6G research in order to generate spatially-consistent and environment-specific channel impulse responses (CIRs). While acquiring accurate scene geometries is now relatively straightforward, determining…