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Smoothed particle radiation hydrodynamics: two-moment method with local Eddington tensor closure

Chan, T K and Theuns, Tom and Bower, Richard and Frenk, Carlos (2021) 'Smoothed particle radiation hydrodynamics: two-moment method with local Eddington tensor closure.', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505 (4). pp. 5784-5814.

Abstract

We present a new smoothed particle hydrodynamics-radiative transfer method (SPH-M1RT) that is coupled dynamically with SPH. We implement it in the (task-based parallel) SWIFT galaxy simulation code but it can be straightforwardly implemented in other SPH codes. Our moment-based method simultaneously solves the radiation energy and flux equations in SPH, making it adaptive in space and time. We modify the M1 closure relation to stabilize radiation fronts in the optically thin limit. We also introduce anisotropic artificial viscosity and high-order artificial diffusion schemes, which allow the code to handle radiation transport accurately in both the optically thin and optically thick regimes. Non-equilibrium thermochemistry is solved using a semi-implicit sub-cycling technique. The computational cost of our method is independent of the number of sources and can be lowered further by using the reduced speed-of-light approximation. We demonstrate the robustness of our method by applying it to a set of standard tests from the cosmological radiative transfer comparison project of Iliev et al. The SPH-M1RT scheme is well-suited for modelling situations in which numerous sources emit ionizing radiation, such as cosmological simulations of galaxy formation or simulations of the interstellar medium.

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Status:Peer-reviewed
Publisher Web site:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1686
Publisher statement:This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ©: 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Date accepted:09 June 2021
Date deposited:06 July 2021
Date of first online publication:12 June 2021
Date first made open access:06 July 2021

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