The past and future of the Monte Carlo method in thermal radiation transfer

JR Howell, KJ Daun - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Since its initial development as a specialty technique for modeling neutron transport in fissile
materials almost 80 years ago, the Monte Carlo method has since been deployed in almost …

Monte Carlo radiative transfer

UM Noebauer, SA Sim - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2019 - Springer
The theory and numerical modelling of radiation processes and radiative transfer play a key
role in astrophysics: they provide the link between the physical properties of an object and …

A low-rank method for two-dimensional time-dependent radiation transport calculations

Z Peng, RG McClarren, M Frank - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The low-rank approximation is a complexity reduction technique to approximate a tensor or
a matrix with a reduced rank, which has been applied to the simulation of high dimensional …

AREPO-MCRT: Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics on a moving mesh

A Smith, R Kannan, BTH Tsang… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present arepo-mcrt, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer radiation-hydrodynamics
(RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code arepo. Our method is designed for …

Multi-frequency implicit semi-analog Monte-Carlo (ISMC) radiative transfer solver in two-dimensions (without teleportation)

E Steinberg, SI Heizler - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We study the multi-dimensional radiative transfer phenomena using the ISMC scheme, in
both gray and multi-frequency problems. Implicit Monte-Carlo (IMC) schemes have been in …

Analysis of population control techniques for time-dependent and eigenvalue Monte Carlo neutron transport calculations

I Variansyah, RG McClarren - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
An extensive study of population control techniques (PCTs) for time-dependent and
eigenvalue Monte Carlo (MC) neutron transport calculations is presented. We define PCT as …

Core-collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra

S Curtis, N Wolfe, C Fröhlich, JM Miller… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present bolometric and broadband light curves and spectra for a suite of core-collapse
supernova models exploded self-consistently in spherical symmetry within the PUSH …

An implicit unified gas-kinetic wave–particle method for radiative transport process

C Liu, W Li, Y Wang, P Song, K Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The unified gas-kinetic wave–particle method (UGKWP) has been developed for the
multiscale gas, plasma, and multiphase flow transport processes for the past years. In this …

A continuous source tilting scheme for radiative transfer equations in implicit Monte Carlo

Y Shi, X Han, W Sun, P Song - Journal of Computational and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method can exhibit teleportation error in problems
with strong coupling between radiation and material. Source tilting method is a technique to …

Frequency-dependent discrete implicit Monte Carlo scheme for the radiative transfer equation

E Steinberg, SI Heizler - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This work generalizes the discrete implicit Monte Carlo (DIMC) method for modeling the
radiative transfer equation from a gray treatment to a frequency-dependent one. The classic …