Reading books and papers

I am learning radiation transfer in some depth.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05121

This is a paper that I am also going to present in the coming journal club.

A very good literature is:

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/60735/wollaber_1.pdf?sequence=1

I think radiation transfer is a very promising field because.

  1. It is under developed. There are many algorithms for optical thick and LTE (flux limited diffusion, variable Eddington tensor or M1 closure), there are also many algorithms for optical thin and non-LTE (analytic approximation or non-analytic approximation). But there is no efficient algorithm for both. Monte Carlo is an very interesting algorithm to learn and as the computer get more powerful, it will eventually become a global algorithm.
  1. It is in many problems. To name a few, star formation, stellar wind, ISM, binary evolution and galaxy evolution. If we solve the radiation transfer, we can apply it to those problem easily.
  1. In application, ICF and MCF both concern radiation transfer, high temperature engines will also consider radiation.

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