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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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Andreas H. Pawlik , Joop Schaye

We investigate the application of tensor-train (TT) algorithms to multigroup thermal radiation transport (i.e., photon radiation transport). The TT framework enables simulations at discretizations that might otherwise be computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Aditya S. Deshpande , Patrick D. Mullen , Alex A. Gorodetsky , Joshua C. Dolence , Chad D. Meyer , Jonah M. Miller , Luke F. Roberts

Light scattering by tissue severely limits how deep beneath the surface one can image, and the spatial resolution one can obtain from these images. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the most powerful techniques for imaging deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Yongyi Zhao , Ankit Raghuram , Hyun K. Kim , Andreas H. Hielscher , Jacob T. Robinson , Ashok Veeraraghavan

This work generalizes the discrete implicit Monte-Carlo (DIMC) method for modeling the radiative transfer equation from a gray treatment to an frequency-dependent one. The classic implicit Monte-Carlo (IMC) algorithm, that has been used for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Elad Steinberg , Shay I. Heizler

Context. The interpretation of polarised radiation emerging from a planetary atmosphere must rely on solutions to the vector Radiative Transport Equation (vRTE). Monte Carlo integration of the vRTE is a valuable approach for its flexible…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 García Muñoz , A. , Mills , F. P

This paper provides an initial description of the Method of Simultaneous Solutions, a Monte Carlo approach that simultaneously solves multiple Boltzmann-transport-like phenomena. Here, it is used to simultaneously solve the neutron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Dean Price , Brian Kiedrowski , Benoit Forget

We introduce the Quantization Monte Carlo method to solve thermal radiative transport equations with possibly several collision regimes, ranging from few collisions to massive number of collisions per time unit. For each particle in a given…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

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

General relativistic radiation hydrodynamics simulations are necessary to accurately model a number of astrophysical systems involving black holes and neutron stars. Photon transport plays a crucial role in radiatively dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Francois Foucart

Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) presents significant computational challenges due to the stiff, nonlinear coupling between radiation and material energy, particularly in multigroup, high-fidelity transport models. In this work, we develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Olivier , James S. Warsa , HyeongKae Park

Thermal Radiative Transfer (TRT) is the dominant energy transfer mechanism in high-energy density physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. The stiff interactions between the material and radiation fields…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Hans Hammer , HyeongKae Park , Luis Chacon

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

Optimal Transport (OT) problems arise in a wide range of applications, from physics to economics. Getting numerical approximate solution of these problems is a challenging issue of practical importance. In this work, we investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Aurélien Alfonsi , Rafaël Coyaud , Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

Controlling large populations of thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), such as water heaters, poses significant challenges due to the need to balance global constraints (e.g., grid stability) with individual requirements (e.g., physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Thomas Le Corre , Julien Cardinal , Ana Bušić

Radiative transfer describes the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an interacting medium. This process is often simulated by the use of the Monte Carlo method, which involves the probabilistic determination and tracking of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

We propose Mirror Descent Optimal Transport (MDOT), a novel method for solving discrete optimal transport (OT) problems with high precision, by unifying temperature annealing in entropic-regularized OT (EOT) with mirror descent techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mete Kemertas , Allan D. Jepson , Amir-massoud Farahmand

Lattice simulations are an important class of problems in crystalline solids, surface science, alloys, adsorption, absorption, separation, catalysis, to name a few. We describe a fast computational method for performing lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-24 Suhail Haque , Abhijit Chatterjee

Molecular dynamics simulations yield large amounts of trajectory data. For their durable storage and accessibility an efficient compression algorithm is paramount. State of the art domain-specific algorithms combine quantization, Huffman…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Jan Huwald , Stephan Richter , Peter Dittrich

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak

One of the fundamental problems in spacecraft trajectory design is finding the optimal transfer trajectory that minimizes the propellant consumption and transfer time simultaneously. We formulate this as a multi-objective optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Nikolaus Vertovec , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kostas Margellos