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We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-13 Lars Buntemeyer , Robi Banerjee , Thomas Peters , Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

We present a numerical implementation of radiative transfer based on an explicitly photon-conserving advection scheme, where radiative fluxes over the cell interfaces of a structured or unstructured mesh are calculated with a second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margarita Petkova , Volker Springel

We describe a photon-conserving radiative transfer algorithm, using a spatially-adaptive ray tracing scheme, and its parallel implementation into the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological hydrodynamics code, Enzo. By coupling the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John H. Wise , Tom Abel

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

We have developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer method designed specifically for use with parallel adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics codes. This new algorithm, which we call hybrid characteristics, introduces a novel form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik-Jan Rijkhorst , Tomasz Plewa , Anshu Dubey , Garrelt Mellema

A numerical scheme is proposed for the solution of the three-dimensional radiative transfer equation with variable optical depth. We show that time-dependent ray tracing is an attractive choice for simulations of astrophysical ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Razoumov , Douglas Scott

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. R. Parkin

Emerging quality requirements in modern optical systems increase the need for accurate simulation and compensation of disturbances. One key disturbance in high-power laser applications results from thermal loading due to absorption. This…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mark Kurcsics , Peter Eberhard

We present a new algorithm to solve the equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in a frequency-integrated, two-moment formulation. Novel features of the algorithm include i) the adoption of a non-local Variable Eddington Tensor (VET)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Shyam H. Menon , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Rolf Kuiper , Benjamin D. Wibking , Manuel Jung

Interactions between clouds and radiation are at the root of many difficulties in numerically predicting future weather and climate and in retrieving the state of the atmosphere from remote sensing observations. The large range of issues…

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

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

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the transfer of diffuse radiation on three-dimensional mesh grids which is efficient on processors with highly parallel architecture such as recently popular GPUs and CPUs with multi- and many-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Kenji Hasegawa

We explore the application of Monte Carlo transport methods to solving coupled radiation-hydrodynamics problems. We use a time-dependent, frequency-dependent, 3-dimensional radiation transport code, that is special relativistic and includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathaniel Roth , Daniel Kasen

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

A new method for the formal solution of the 2D radiative transfer equation in axial symmetry in the presence of arbitrary velocity fields is presented. The combination of long and short characteristics methods is used to solve the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Korčáková , J. Kubát
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