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In this paper, we introduce a novel numerical method for reconstructing the trajectory within three-dimensional space, where both the emission moment and spatial location of the point source are unknown. Our approach relies solely on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Guanqiu Ma , Haonan Zhang , Hongxia Guo

Two methods are developed for solving the steady-state spherically symmetric radiative transfer equation for resonance line radiation emitted by a point source in the Intergalactic Medium. One method is based on solving the ray and moment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonathan Higgins , Avery Meiksin

New mathematical and numerical results are given for the coupling of the temperature equation of a fluid with Radiative Transfer: existence and uniqueness and a convergent monotone numerical scheme. The technique is shown to be feasible for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-30 F. Golse , O. Pironneau

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

Three decades into the research seeking to derive the urban energy budget, the dynamics of the thermal exchange between the densely built infrastructure and the environment are still not well understood. We present a novel hybrid…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Masoud Ghandehari , Thorsten Emig , Milad Aghamohamadnia

Computer simulations of radio energy transfer in the ionospheric layer with random small-scale irregularities for the case of a point ground-based source and total reflection have been carried out using specially designed algorithm based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Zabotin , E. S. Kovalenko

We describe a highly flexible framework to solve 3D radiation transfer problems in scattering dominated environments based on a long characteristics piece-wise parabolic formal solution and an operator splitting method. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

The geometry of a light wavefront, evolving from a initial flat wavefront in the 3-space associated with a post-Newtonian relativistic spacetime, is studied numerically by means of the ray tracing method. For a discretization of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 A. San Miguel , F. Vicente , J. -F. Pascual-Sanchez

The "Reduced Speed of Light" (RSL) approximation is commonly used to speed up radiative transfer calculations in cosmological simulations. However, it has been shown previously that the RSL approximation leads to photon non-conservation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present a second-order gradient analysis of light transport in participating media and use this to develop an improved radiance caching algorithm for volumetric light transport. We adaptively sample and interpolate radiance from sparse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Julio Marco , Adrian Jarabo , Wojciech Jarosz , Diego Gutierrez

Heat radiation and near-field radiative heat transfer can be strongly manipulated by adjusting geometrical shapes, optical properties, or the relative positions of the objects involved. Typically these objects are considered as embedded in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Boris Müller , Roberta Incardone , Mauro Antezza , Thorsten Emig , Matthias Krüger

Anisotropic diffusion is imperative in understanding cosmic ray diffusion across the Galaxy, the heliosphere, and the interplay of cosmic rays with the Galactic magnetic field. This diffusion term contributes to the highly stiff nature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Pranab J. Deka , Ralf Kissmann , Lukas Einkemmer

Radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale presents a challenge for several areas due to its scope and nature. Here, we provide a thermokinetic description of microscale radiative energy transfer including phonon-photon coupling manifested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Luciano C. Lapas , J. Miguel Rubí

Radiative transfer coupled with highly realistic simulations of the solar atmosphere is routinely used to infer the physical properties underlying solar observations. Due to its computational efficiency, the method of short-characteristics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 Courtney L. Peck , Serena Criscuoli , Mark P. Rast

At low temperatures when the phonon modes are effectively frozen, photon transport is the dominating mechanism of thermal relaxation in metallic systems. Starting from a microscopic many-body Hamiltonian, we develop a nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teemu Ojanen , Tero T. Heikkila

Following the completion of cosmic reionization, the mean-free-path of ionizing photons was set by a population of Ly-limit absorbers. As the mean-free-path steadily grew, the intensity of the ionizing background also grew, thus lowering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

Polarization of radiation is a powerful tool to study cosmic magnetism and analysis of polarization can be used as a diagnostic tool for large-scale structures. In this paper, we present a solid theoretical foundation for using polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Kinwah Wu , Alvina Y. L. On , David J. Barnes , Jason D. McEwen , Thomas D. Kitching

We present a comprehensive analytical study of radiative transfer using the method of moments and include the effects of non-isotropic scattering in the coherent limit. Within this unified formalism, we derive the governing equations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kevin Heng , João M. Mendonça , Jae-Min Lee

The transport of energy in heated plasmas requires the knowledge of the radiation coefficients. These coefficients consist of contribution of bremsstrahlung, photoionisation, bound-bound transmissions and scattering. Scattering of photons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-20 J. Fiedler

We present an efficient method to generate large simulations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) without the need for a full 3-dimensional radiative transfer code. Large dark-matter-only simulations are post-processed to produce maps of the…