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We investigate the parallel performance of Parallel Spectral Deferred corrections, a numerical approach that provides small-scale parallelism for the numerical solution of initial value problems. The scheme is applied to the shallow-water…
The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…
It is generally accepted that the atmospheres of cool/lukewarm stars of spectral types A and later are described well by LTE model atmospheres, while the O-type stars require a detailed treatment of NLTE effects. Here model atmosphere…
This review paper outlines background information and covers recent advances made via the analysis of spectra and images of prominence plasma and the increased sophistication of non-LTE (ie when there is a departure from Local Thermodynamic…
The new era of software signal processing has a large impact on radio astronomy instrumentation. Our design and implementation of a 32 antennae, 33 MHz, dual polarization, fully real-time software backend for the GMRT, using only…
Inversion codes are computer programs that fit a model atmosphere to the observed Stokes spectra, thus retrieving the relevant atmospheric parameters. The rising interest in the solar chromosphere, where spectral lines are formed by…
Precise fundamental atmospheric stellar parameters and abundance determination of individual elements in stars are important for all stellar population studies. Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (Non-LTE; hereafter NLTE) models are often…
State-of-the-art NLTE model-atmosphere codes have arrived at a high level of numerical sophistication and are now useful tools to analyze high-quality spectra from the infrared to the X-ray wavelength range. The capacity of current…
The polarization state of electromagnetic radiation scattered by atmospheric particles such as aerosols, cloud droplets, or ice crystals contains much more information about the optical and microphysical properties than the total intensity…
We present results of our calculations of NLTE model stellar atmospheres for hot Population III stars composed of hydrogen and helium. We use our own computer code for calculation of spherically symmetric NLTE model atmospheres in…
We discuss an implementation of our 3D radiative transfer (3DRT) framework with the OpenCL paradigm for general GPU computing. We implement the kernel for solving the 3DRT problem in Cartesian coordinates with periodic boundary conditions…
Matrix Distributed Processing (MDP) is a C++ library for fast development of efficient parallel algorithms. It constitues the core of FermiQCD. MDP enables programmers to focus on algorithms, while parallelization is dealt with…
We report the results of intensive numerical calculations for four atomic H2+H2 energy transfer collision. A parallel computing technique based on LAM/MPI functions is used. In this algorithm, the data is distributed to the processors…
One of the major tasks in interpretation of data from large-scale stellar surveys is to determine the fundamental atmospheric parameters such as effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity. In most on-going and upcoming…
This article presents the methods used to parallelize a new computer vision application. The system is able to automatically detect meteor from non-stabilized cameras and noisy video sequences. The application is designed to be embedded in…
Context: The current stellar atmosphere programs still cannot match some fundamental observations of the brightest stars, and with new techniques, such as optical interferometry, providing new data for these stars, additional development of…
Achieving efficient and accurate simulation of the radiative transfer has long been a research challenge. Here we introduce the general synthetic iterative scheme as an easy-to-implement approach to address this issue. First, a macroscopic…
One of the current opportunities for stellar atmospheric modeling is the interpretation of optical interferometric data of stars. Starting from the robust, open source ATLAS atmospheric code (Kurucz, 1979), we have developed a spherically…
Present observational techniques provide stellar spectra with high resolution at a high signal-to-noise ratio over the complete wavelength range -- from the far infrared to the X-ray. NLTE effects are particularly important for hot stars,…
The basic idea of an extremely fast convergent iterative method, the Forth-and-Back Implicit Lambda Iteration (FBILI), is briefly described and the applications of the method to various RT problems are listed and discussed.