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HyeongKae Park

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arXiv2026

Efficient, Nonlinear Second Moment Methods for Multigroup Thermal Radiative Transfer

Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) presents significant computational challenges due to the stiff, nonlinear coupling between radiation and material energy, particularly in multigroup, high-fidelity transport models. In this work, we develop an efficient nonlinear acceleration framework for TRT based on the Second Moment (SM) method. Our approach couples high-order discrete ordinates transport to a gray, diffusion-based low-order system that implicitly resolves the stiff absorption-emission physics, isolating this stiffness from the high-order system. The resulting algorithm alternates between transport sweeps and a Newton-type solution of the coupled low-order and material energy balance equations. Crucially, our approach is the first moment-based TRT algorithm with a symmetric and positive definite (SPD) low-order system enabling scalable linear solves. We investigate both consistent and independent low-order discretizations within a discontinuous Galerkin framework and assess their performance on one and two-dimensional gray and multigroup benchmark problems. A discrete reference approach is used to assess numerical error in space-time convergence studies of challenging TRT problems. Results demonstrate that these algorithms achieve robust nonlinear convergence and significant reductions in transport iterations compared to unaccelerated schemes, resulting in large speedups in overall runtime. While the independent formulation offers improved iteration counts on under-resolved meshes, the consistent method provides superior solution quality and robustness. Overall, this work establishes the SM method as an effective and scalable approach for nonlinear multigroup TRT and provides insight into the interplay between discretization consistency, accuracy, and solver performance arising in moment-based acceleration algorithms.

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arXiv2025

Moment-based adaptive time integration for thermal radiation transport

In this paper we develop a framework for moment-based adaptive time integration of deterministic multifrequency thermal radiation transpot (TRT). We generalize our recent semi-implicit-explicit (IMEX) integration framework for gray TRT to multifrequency TRT, and also introduce a semi-implicit variation that facilitates higher-order integration of TRT, where each stage is implicit in all components except opacities. To appeal to the broad literature on adaptivity with Runge--Kutta methods, we derive new embedded methods for four asymptotic preserving IMEX Runge--Kutta schemes we have found to be robust in our previous work on TRT and radiation hydrodynamics. We then use a moment-based high-order-low-order representation of the transport equations. Due to the high dimensionality, memory is always a concern in simulating TRT. We form error estimates and adaptivity in time purely based on temperature and radiation energy, for a trivial overhead in computational cost and memory usage compared with the base second order integrators. We then test the adaptivity in time on the tophat and Larsen problem, demonstrating the ability of the adaptive algorithm to naturally vary the timestep across 4--5 orders of magnitude, ranging from the dynamical timescales of the streaming regime to the thick diffusion limit.

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arXiv2024

Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta for radiation hydrodynamics I: gray diffusion

Radiation hydrodynamics are a challenging multiscale and multiphysics set of equations. To capture the relevant physics of interest, one typically must time step on the hydrodynamics timescale, making explicit integration the obvious choice. On the other hand, the coupled radiation equations have a scaling such that implicit integration is effectively necessary in non-relativistic regimes. A first-order Lie-Trotter-like operator split is the most common time integration scheme used in practice, alternating between an explicit hydrodynamics step and an implicit radiation solve and energy deposition step. However, such a scheme is limited to first-order accuracy, and nonlinear coupling between the radiation and hydrodynamics equations makes a more general additive partitioning of the equations non-trivial. Here, we develop a new formulation and partitioning of radiation hydrodynamics with gray diffusion that allows us to apply (linearly) implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta time integration schemes. We prove conservation of total energy in the new framework, and demonstrate 2nd-order convergence in time on multiple radiative shock problems, achieving error 3--5 orders of magnitude smaller than the first-order Lie-Trotter operator split at the hydrodynamic CFL, even when Lie-Trotter applies a 3rd-order TVD Runge-Kutta scheme to the hydrodynamics equations.

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arXiv2024

One-sweep moment-based semi-implicit-explicit integration for gray thermal radiation transport

Thermal radiation transport (TRT) is a time dependent, high dimensional partial integro-differential equation. In practical applications such as inertial confinement fusion, TRT is coupled to other physics such as hydrodynamics, plasmas, etc., and the timescales one is interested in capturing are often much slower than the radiation timescale. As a result, TRT is treated implicitly, and due to its stiffness and high dimensionality, is often a dominant computational cost in multiphysics simulations. Here we develop a new approach for implicit-explicit (IMEX) integration of gray TRT in the deterministic S$_N$ setting, which requires only one sweep per stage, with the simplest first-order method requiring only one sweep per time step. The partitioning of equations is done via a moment-based high-order low-order formulation of TRT, where the streaming operator and first two moments are used to capture the asymptotic stiff regimes of the streaming limit and diffusion limit. Absorption-reemission is treated explicitly, and although stiff, is sufficiently damped by the implicit solve that we achieve stable accurate time integration without incorporating the coupling of the high order and low order equations implicitly. Due to nonlinear coupling of the high-order and low-order equations through temperature-dependent opacities, to facilitate IMEX partitioning and higher-order methods, we use a semi-implicit integration approach amenable to nonlinear partitions. Results are demonstrated on thick Marshak and crooked pipe benchmark problems, demonstrating orders of magnitude improvement in accuracy and wallclock compared with the standard first-order implicit integration typically used.

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arXiv2024

Consistent Second Moment Methods with Scalable Linear Solvers for Radiation Transport

Second Moment Methods (SMMs) are developed that are consistent with the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spatial discretization of the discrete ordinates (or \Sn) transport equations. The low-order (LO) diffusion system of equations is discretized with fully consistent \Pone, Local Discontinuous Galerkin (LDG), and Interior Penalty (IP) methods. A discrete residual approach is used to derive SMM correction terms that make each of the LO systems consistent with the high-order (HO) discretization. We show that the consistent methods are more accurate and have better solution quality than independently discretized LO systems, that they preserve the diffusion limit, and that the LDG and IP consistent SMMs can be scalably solved in parallel on a challenging, multi-material benchmark problem.

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arXiv2019

A multi-dimensional, moment-accelerated deterministic particle method for time-dependent, multi-frequency thermal radiative transfer problems

Thermal Radiative Transfer (TRT) is the dominant energy transfer mechanism in high-energy density physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. The stiff interactions between the material and radiation fields make TRT problems challenging to model. In this study, we propose a multi-dimensional extension of the deterministic particle (DP) method. The DP method combines aspects from both particle and deterministic methods. If the emission source is known \apriori, and no physical scattering is present, the intensity of a particle can be integrated analytically. This introduces no statistical noise compared to Monte-Carlo methods, while maintaining the flexibility of particle methods. The method is closely related to the popular method of long characteristics. The combination of the DP-method with a discretely-consistent, nonlinear, gray low-order system enables an efficient solution algorithm for multi-frequency TRT problems. We demonstrate with numerical examples that the use of a linear-source approximation based on spatial moments improves the behavior of our method in the thick diffusion limit significantly.

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