Numerical solution of the radiation transport equation in disk geometry

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Jun 1987

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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (ISSN 0022-4073), vol. 37, June 1987, p. 565-580.

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Accretion Disks, Computational Astrophysics, Cosmic Dust, Disk Galaxies, Nebulae, Radiation Transport, Angular Momentum, Interstellar Matter, Linear Equations, Molecular Clouds, Ray Tracing, Stellar Envelopes

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An efficient numerical method for solving the problem of radiation transport in a dusty medium with two dimensional (2-D) disk geometry is described. It is a generalization of the one-dimensional quasi-diffusion method in which the transport equation is cast in diffusion form and then solved as a boundary value problem. The method should be applicable to a variety of astronomical sources, the dynamics of which are angular-momentum dominated and hence not accurately treated by spherical geometry, e.g., protoplanetary nebulae, circumstellar disks, interstellar molecular clouds, accretion disks, and disk galaxies. The computational procedure and practical considerations for implementing the method are described in detail. To illustrate the effects of 2-D radiation transport, some model results (dust temperature distributions and IR flux spectra) for externally heated, interstellar dust clouds with spherically symmetric and disk geometry are compared.

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