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MAGRITTE: a new multidimensional accelerated general-purpose radiative transfer code

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2019

Frederik De Ceuster Open the ORCID record for Frederik De Ceuster [Opens in a new window] ,
Jeremy Yates ,
Peter Boyle ,
Leen Decin  and
James Hetherington
Frederik De Ceuster
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK email: frederik.deceuster@kuleuven.be Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Jeremy Yates
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK email: frederik.deceuster@kuleuven.be
Peter Boyle
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
Leen Decin
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
James Hetherington
Affiliation:
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
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Abstract

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Magritte is a new deterministic radiative transfer code. It is a ray-tracing code that computes the radiation field by solving the radiative transfer equation along a fixed set of rays for each grid cell. Its ray-tracing algorithm is independent of the type of input grid and thus can handle smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) particles, structured as well as unstructured grids. The radiative transfer solver is highly parallelized and optimized to have well scaling performance on several computer architectures. Magritte also contains separate dedicated modules for chemistry and thermal balance. These enable it to self-consistently model the interdependence between the radiation field and the local thermal and chemical states. The source code for Magritte will be made publically available at github.com/Magritte-code.

Keywords

radiative transferastrochemistrymethods: numerical
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S343: Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time , August 2018 , pp. 381 - 382
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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