Ray Casting and Flux Limited Diffusion

Abstract

Abstract.Solving radiative transfer problems with ray casting methods is compared with the commonly used 'Flux Limited Diffusion' approximation. Whereas ray casting produces solutions that converge to the exact one as the number of rays is increased, flux-limited-diffusion is fundamentally a 'look-alike' method, which produces solutions that are reminiscent of the correct solution but which cannot be made to converge to it.