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    This study introduces a fast parallel method for solving the radiative transport equation in inhomogeneous media. The approach enhances computational efficiency and accuracy for light and gamma-photon simulations.

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    Area of Science:

    • Computational physics
    • Numerical methods
    • Radiative transfer

    Background:

    • Solving the radiative transport equation (RTE) in inhomogeneous participating media is computationally intensive.
    • Existing methods often struggle with accuracy and efficiency, especially for complex media and large-scale simulations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a fast, parallel method for solving the RTE in inhomogeneous participating media.
    • To improve the efficiency and accuracy of radiative transport simulations using a novel approximation and iterative refinement approach.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel approximation scheme provides an initial guess for direct and scattered radiation components.
    • An iterative multiple scattering solver is bootstrapped using this initial approximation, focusing on the residual problem.
    • The method is implemented on a face-centered cubic grid using CUDA for GPU acceleration and extended to GPU clusters for large-scale problems.

    Main Results:

    • The bootstrapping approach leads to a more uniform volumetric source approximation, reducing discretization artifacts.
    • The parallel implementation demonstrates improved efficiency on GPUs and GPU clusters.
    • A strategy to avoid communication bottlenecks in cluster implementations by selective boundary condition exchange is presented.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers a significant advancement in solving the radiative transport equation for inhomogeneous media.
    • The technique is efficient, accurate, and scalable, applicable to both light and gamma-photons in simulations.
    • This work has implications for fields requiring accurate radiative transfer modeling, including medical physics.