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Radiative magneto-hydrodynamics in massive star formation and accretion disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Rolf Kuiper ,
Mario Flock  and
Hubert Klahr
Rolf Kuiper
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: kuiper@mpia.de
Mario Flock
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: kuiper@mpia.de
Hubert Klahr
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: kuiper@mpia.de
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Abstract

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We briefly overview our newly developed radiation transport module for MHD simulations and two actual applications. The method combines the advantage of the speed of the Flux-Limited Diffusion approximation and the high accuracy obtained in ray-tracing methods.

Keywords

Radiative transfer – MHD – stars: formation – accretion disks – methods: numerical

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