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This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon , Stéphane Descombes , Thierry Dumont

A meshless method is presented to solve the radiative transfer equation in the even parity formulation of the discrete ordinates method in complex 2D and 3D geometries. Prediction results of radiative heat transfer problems obtained by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Cheng-An Wang , Hamou Sadat , Vital Le dez , Denis Lemonnier

This paper considers the iterative solution of linear systems arising from discretization of the anisotropic radiative transfer equation with discontinuous elements on the sphere. In order to achieve robust convergence behavior in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Jürgen Dölz , Olena Palii , Matthias Schlottbom

The report deals with classical and quantum descriptions of particles that interact with smooth random potentials, for example ultracold atoms in the dipole potential of an optical speckle pattern. In addition, a discussion of the link…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carsten Henkel

Context. The numerical modeling of the generation and transfer of polarized radiation is a key task in solar and stellar physics research and has led to a relevant class of discrete problems that can be reframed as linear systems. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Gioele Janett , Pietro Benedusi , Luca Belluzzi , Rolf Krause

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here it is shown that under certain smoothness conditions on the scattering and absorption coefficients, one can recover sources supported in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mark Hubenthal

Photon transport through a diffusing slab can be described by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). When the slab is highly scattering and weakly absorbing, the RTE simplifies to the diffusion equation. In this paper, an inverse diffusion…

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

Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ugo Zanforlin , Cosmo Lupo , Peter W. R. Connolly , Pieter Kok , Gerald S. Buller , Zixin Huang

Aims. The main goal of this paper is to present an accurate and efficient numerical strategy for solving the radiative transfer problem for polarised radiation in strong resonance lines forming out of local thermodynamic equilibrium, taking…

Accurate accounting of particle number and 4-momentum in radiative transfer may be facilitated by the use of transport equations that allow transparent conversion between volume and surface integrals in both spacetime and momentum space.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Christian Y. Cardall

In this paper we investigate a sub-diffusion equation for simulating the anomalous diffusion phenomenon in real physical environment. Based on an equivalent transformation of the original sub-diffusion equation followed by the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Zongze Yang , Jungang Wang , Yan Li , Yufeng Nie

Light transport in graded index media follows a curved trajectory determined by the Fermat's principle. Besides the effect of variation of the refractive index on the transport of radiative intensity, the curved ray trajectory will induce…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. M. Zhao , J. Y. Tan , L. H. Liu

In this paper, we deal with the differential properties of the scalar flux defined over a two-dimensional bounded convex domain, as a solution to the integral radiation transfer equation. Estimates for the derivatives of the scalar flux…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Dean Wang

The development of an analytically iterative method for solving steady-state as well as unsteady-state problems of cosmic-ray (CR) modulation is proposed. Iterations for obtaining the solutions are constructed for the spherically symmetric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Yuriy L. Kolesnyk , Pavol Bobik , Boris A. Shakhov , Marian Putis

We solve the integral equation describing the propagation of light in an isothermal plane-parallel atmosphere of optical thickness $\tau^*$, adopting a uniform thermalization parameter $\epsilon$. The solution given by the ALI method,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chevallier , F. Paletou , B. Rutily

This paper presents two approaches to mathematical modelling of a synthetic seismic pulse, and a comparison between them. First, a new analytical model is developed in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates. Combined with an initial…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes , A. M. Reading

Inverse scattering involving microwave and ultrasound waves require numerical solution of nonlinear optimization problem. To alleviate the computational burden of a full three-dimensional (3-D) inverse problem, it is a common practice to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Mert Hidayetoglu , Michael Oelze , Erhan Kudeki , Weng Cho Chew

We solve a weakly singular integral equation by Laplace transformation over a finite interval of R. The equation is transformed into a Cauchy integral equation, whose resolution amounts to solving two Fredholm integral equations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Rutily , L. Chevallier

A new semi-analytical solution to the advection-dispersion-reaction equation for modelling solute transport in layered porous media is derived using the Laplace transform. Our solution approach involves introducing unknown functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Elliot J. Carr