Methods in Radiative Transfer.
Abstract
Numerical methods for solving radiative transfer problems in optically thick, radiating media are explored in depth. Attention is focused on astrophysical plasmas, especially stellar atmospheres. Fast methods are considered for solving the transfer equations, including escape probability methods, probabilistic radiative transfer, and perturbation techniques. Consideration is also given to core saturation in a moving media, approximate lambda operators for nonlinear energy transfer problems, and a single-ray approximation iterative method. Spherical radiative transfer is approached with difference equations and linearization methods, a discrete space theory, from data on line blanketing, using operator perturbation methods, and with integral equations.
- Publication:
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Methods in Radiative Transfer
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984mrt..book.....K
- Keywords:
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- Computational Astrophysics;
- Cosmic Plasma;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Stellar Atmospheres;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Integral Equations;
- Iterative Solution;
- Linearization;
- Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics;
- Nonlinear Equations;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Operators (Mathematics);
- Perturbation Theory;
- Probability Theory;
- Transition Probabilities;
- Astrophysics;
- NUMERICAL METHODS;
- RADIATIVE TRANSFER