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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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renat A. Sultanov , Mark Nordby , Dennis Guster

Context: The solution of the nonlocal thermodynamical equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative transfer equation usually relies on stationary iterative methods, which may falsely converge in some cases. Furthermore, these methods are often unable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Julien Lambert , Eric Josselin , Nils Ryde , Alexandre Faure

An efficient numerical algorithm is presented for massively parallel simulations of dispersion-managed wavelength-division-multiplexed optical fiber systems. The algorithm is based on a weak nonlinearity approximation and independent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Lushnikov

The atmospheres of novae at early times in their outbursts are very extended, expanding shells with low densities. Models of these atmospheres show that NLTE effects are very important and must be included in realistic calculations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron , Sumner Starrfield , France Allard

The integration of quantum chemical methods with high-performance computing is indispensable for handling large systems with modest accuracy or even small systems but with high accuracy. Continuing with the unified implementation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Qingpeng Wang , Ning Zhang , Wenjian Liu

Nonlinear computation is essential for a wide range of information processing tasks, yet implementing nonlinear functions using optical systems remains a challenge due to the weak and power-intensive nature of optical nonlinearities.…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-10 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Yuhang Li , Xilin Yang , Shiqi Chen , Aydogan Ozcan

We provide a mathematically proven parallelization scheme for particle methods on distributed-memory computer systems. Particle methods are a versatile and widely used class of algorithms for computer simulations and numerical predictions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Johannes Pahlke , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Context. Three-dimensional non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) radiative transfer calculations are a fundamental tool for a detailed spectral analysis in stellar atmospheres, but require vast amounts of computer power. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Elias R. Udnæs , Tiago M. D. Pereira

The solar atmosphere is diagnosed by solving the polarized radiative transfer problem for plasmas in Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE). A key challenge in multidimensional NLTE diagnosis is to integrate efficiently the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 E. S. Carlin , S. Blanes , F. Casas

The kernel-based multi-scale method has been proven to be a powerful approximation method for scattered data approximation problems which is computationally superior to conventional kernel-based interpolation techniques. The multi-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Federico Lot , Christian Rieger

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 C. Emde , V. Barlakas , C. Cornet , F. Evans , S. Korkin , Y. Ota , L. C. -Labonnote , A. Lyapustin , A. Macke , B. Mayer , M. Wendisch

We present a new library of high-resolution synthetic spectra based on the stellar atmosphere code PHOENIX that can be used for a wide range of applications of spectral analysis and stellar parameter synthesis. The spherical mode of PHOENIX…

Modern parallel computing devices, such as the graphics processing unit (GPU), have gained significant traction in scientific and statistical computing. They are particularly well-suited to data-parallel algorithms such as the particle…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-12 Lawrence M. Murray , Anthony Lee , Pierre E. Jacob

The so-called full non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (FNLTE) radiative transfer problem allows us to take into account not only deviations of the radiation field from the Planckian but also deviations of the densities and velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 T. Lagache , M. Sampoorna , F. Paletou

We describe a parallel solver for the discretized weakly singular space-time boundary integral equation of the spatially two-dimensional heat equation. The global space-time nature of the system matrices leads to improved parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Stefan Dohr , Michal Merta , Günther Of , Olaf Steinbach , Jan Zapletal

We describe two means by which XSTAR, a code which computes physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases, has been parallelized. The first is pvm_xstar, a wrapper which can be used in place of the serial xstar2xspec script…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Michael S. Noble , Li Ji , Andrew Young , Julia Lee

The ability to timely process significant amounts of continuously updated spatial data is mandatory for an increasing number of applications. Parallelism enables such applications to face this data-intensive challenge and allows the devised…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Francesco Lettich , Salvatore Orlando , Claudio Silvestri , Christian S. Jensen

In this article we present a parallel algorithm for simulation of the heat conduction process inside the so-called pulse cryogenic cell. This simulation is important for designing the device for portion injection of working gases into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 A. Ayriyan , J. Buša

With the rapid evolution of space-borne capabilities, space edge computing (SEC) is becoming a new computation paradigm for future integrated space and terrestrial networks. Satellite edges adopt advanced on-board hardware, which not only…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Weisen Liu , Zeqi Lai , Qian Wu , Hewu Li , Qi Zhang , Zonglun Li , Yuanjie Li , Jun Liu

Context. Computing spectra from 3D simulations of stellar atmospheres when allowing for departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) is computationally very intensive. Aims. We develop a machine learning based method to speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bruce A. Chappell , Tiago M. D. Pereira