Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992a%26a...262..501h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 262, no. 2, p. 501-514.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
112
Early Stars, Newton-Raphson Method, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Atmospheres, Linear Equations, Particle Acceleration
Scientific paper
Two approaches to accelerating the method of complete linearization for calculating NLTE model stellar atmospheres are suggested. The first one, the so-called Kantorovich variant of the Newton-Raphson method, consists of keeping the Jacobi matrix of the system fixed, which allows us to calculate the costly matrix inversions only a few times and then keep them fixed during the subsequent computations. The second method is an application of the Ng acceleration. Both methods are extremely easy to implement with any model atmosphere code based on complete linearization. It is demonstrated that both methods, and especially their combination, yield a rapidly and globally convergent algorithm, which takes 2 to 5 times less computer time, depending on the model at hand and the required accuracy, than the ordinary complete linearization. Generally, the time gain is more significant for more complicated models. The methods were tested for a broad range of atmospheric parameters, and in all cases they exhibited similar behavior. Ng acceleration applied on the Kantorovich variant thus offers a significant improvement of the standard complete-linearization method, and may now be used for calculating relatively involved NLTE model stellar atmospheres.
Hubeny Ivan
Lanz Thierry
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