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TORUS

TORUS (a historical acronym: Transfer Of Radiation Under Sobolev) is a Monte Carlo radiation transport and hydrodynamics code, originally developed by Tim Harries who is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Exeter. ! Note that there is now a TORUS code paper here

 

TORUS is one of the main tools that I use in my research. 

 

For more information, user manual and public release version, see the TORUS website. To request features not in the public release, contact Tim Harries or Thomas Haworth.

Code Features

Main features

  • Hydrodynamics

  • Radiative equilibrium

  • Photoionization

  • Radiation hydrodynamics

  • Self gravity

  • Statistical equilibrium 

  • Coupled Radiative transfer and photodissociation region (PDR) modelling

 

 

 

 

  • Molecular line data cubes

  • Continuum 

  • atomic line (including forbidden lines)

  • Spectral energy distributions (SEDs)

 

 

 

 

  • MPI

  • openMP

  • hybrid parallelization

Synthetic observations

Parallelization

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