.. _radiative_transfer: Radiative Transfer ================== .. sectionauthor:: John Wise .. versionadded:: 2.0 For relevant parameters, please also see :ref:`radiative_transfer_ray_tracing` and :ref:`radiative_transfer_fld`. Adaptive Ray Tracing -------------------- Solving the radiative transfer equation can be computed with adaptive ray tracing that is fully coupled with the hydrodynamics and energy / rate solvers. The adaptive ray tracing uses the algorithm of Abel & Wandelt (2002) that is based on the HEALPix framework. For the time being, a detailed description and test suite can be found in the paper Wise & Abel (2011, MNRAS 414, 3458). Flux Limited Diffusion ---------------------- More details can be found in the paper Reynolds et al. (2009, Journal of Computational Physics 228, 6833).