Physics – Computational Physics
Scientific paper
2011-04-28
Physics
Computational Physics
18 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
Scientific paper
We present a numerical method for handling the resolution of a general transport equation for radiative particles, aimed at physical problems with a general spherical geometry. Having in mind the computational time difficulties encountered in problems such as neutrino transport in astrophysical supernovae, we present a scheme based on full spectral methods in 6d spherical coordinates. This approach, known to be suited when the characteristic length of the dynamics is much smaller than the domain size, has the potential advantage of a global speedup with respect to usual finite difference schemes. An analysis of the properties of the Liouville operator expressed in our coordinates is necessary in order to handle correctly the numerical behaviour of the solution. This reflects on a specific (spherical) geometry of the computational domain. The numerical tests, performed under several different regimes for the equation, prove the robustness of the scheme: their performances also point out to the suitability of such an approach to large scale computations involving transport physics for mass less radiative particles.
Bonazzola Silvano
Vasset Nicolas
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