• DOI:10.1088/0143-0807/37/1/015603
• Corpus ID: 119218216

Numerical radiative transfer with state-of-the-art iterative methods made easy

@article{Lambert2015NumericalRT,
  title={Numerical radiative transfer with state-of-the-art iterative methods made easy},
  author={Julien Lambert and F. Paletou and Eric Josselin and J. M. Glorian},
  journal={European Journal of Physics},
  year={2015},
  volume={37}
}

• J. Lambert, F. Paletou, +1 author J. Glorian
• Published 3 September 2015
• Physics
• European Journal of Physics

This article presents an on-line tool and its accompanying software resources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative methods such as Accelerated Λ-iteration and Gauss–Seidel schemes, using a short characteristics-based formal solver are used. We also comment on typical numerical experiments associated to the basic non-LTE radiation problem. These resources are intended for the largest use and benefit, in support to more classical radiation transfer lectures usually given at the Master level.