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The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. Caola

We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela

We present a fully adaptive multiresolution scheme for spatially two-dimensional, possibly degenerate reaction-diffusion systems, focusing on combustion models and models of pattern formation and chemotaxis in mathematical biology.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-10 Mostafa Bendahmane , Raimund Bürger , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , Kai Schneider

Radiation hydrodynamics describes the interaction between high-temperature hypersonic plasmas and the radiation they emit or absorb, a coupling that plays a central role in many astrophysical phenomena related to accretion and ejection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Gonzague Radureau

Monte Carlo techniques based on indivisible energy packets are described for computing light curves and spectra for 3-D supernovae. The radiative transfer is time-dependent and includes all effects of O(v/c). Monte Carlo quantization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Lucy

We present TREVR2 (Tree-based REVerse Ray Tracing 2), a fast, general algorithm for computing the radiation field, suitable for both particle and mesh codes. It is designed to self-consistently evolve chemistry for zoomed-in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 James W. Wadsley , Bernhard Baumschlager , Sijing Shen

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

Radiation hydrodynamical transport of ionization fronts in the next generation of cosmological reionization simulations holds the promise of predicting UV escape fractions from first principles as well as investigating the role of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel J. Whalen , Michael L. Norman

We present Lampray: a multi-group long characteristics ray tracing method for adaptive mesh radiation hydrodynamics in the Ramses code. It avoids diffusion, captures shadows, and treats colliding beams correctly, and therefore complements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Troels Frostholm , Troels Haugbølle , Tommaso Grassi

We consider a problem of identification of point sources in time dependent advection-diffusion systems with a non-linear reaction term. The linear counterpart of the problem in question can be reduced to solving a system of non-linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Alexander V. Mamonov , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

We present TRAPHIC, a novel radiative transfer scheme for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. TRAPHIC is designed for use in simulations exhibiting a wide dynamic range in physical length scales and containing a large number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andreas H. Pawlik , Joop Schaye

Indirect imaging problems in biomedical optics generally require repeated evaluation of forward models of radiative transport, for which Monte Carlo is accurate yet computationally costly. We develop a novel approach to reduce this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Callum M. Macdonald , Simon Arridge , Samuel Powell

The Milne-Eddington approximation provides an analytic and simple solution to the radiative transfer equation. It can be easily implemented in inversion codes that are used to fit spectro-polarimetric observations to infer average values of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 A. J. Dorantes-Monteagudo , A. L. Siu-Tapia , C. Quintero Noda , D. Orozco Suárez

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

Moment methods are classical approaches that approximate the mesoscopic radiative transfer equation by a system of macroscopic moment equations. An expansion in the angular variables transforms the original equation into a system of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Martin Frank , Benjamin Seibold

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

We present a new approach to numerically model continuum radiative transfer based on the Optically Thin Variable Eddington Tensor (OTVET) approximation. Our method insures the exact conservation of the photon number and flux (in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel

Radiance fields produce high fidelity images with high rendering speed, but are difficult to manipulate. We effectively perform avatar texture transfer across different appearances by combining benefits from radiance fields and mesh…

This paper presents an efficient parallel radiative transfer-based inverse-problem solver for time-domain optical tomography. The radiative transfer equation provides a physically accurate model for the transport of photons in biological…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 E. L. Gaggioli , O. P. Bruno

This paper is presented to give numerical solutions of some cases of nonlinear wave-like equations with variable coefficients by using Reduced Differential Transform Method (RDTM). RDTM can be applied most of the physical, engineering,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Murat Gubes , Yildiray Keskin , Galip Oturanc