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This broad treatment provides an accessible introduction to the theory and the large-scale simulation methods currently used in radiation hydrodynamics. Chapters cover all the central topics, including: a review of the fundamentals of gas dynamics; methods for computational fluid dynamics; theory of radiative transfer and of the dynamical coupling of matter and radiation; and quantum mechanics of matter-radiation interaction. Also covered are the details of spectral line formation out of thermodynamic equilibrium; the theory of refraction and transfer of polarized light and current computational methods for radiation transport, and a description of some notable applications of the theory in astrophysics and laboratory plasmas. This is a valuable text for research scientists and graduate students in physics and astrophysics.

Accessible introduction to an important area of astrophysics
Provides a survey of current computational methods for large-scale simulations
Includes a chapter on polarised radiation transport



Table of Contents

List of figures
Preface
1. Introduction
2. A quick review of gas dynamics
3. Numerical hydrodynamics
4. Description of radiation
5. Steady-state transfer
6. The comoving-frame picture
7. Hydrodynamics with radiation: waves and stability
8. Radiation-matter interactions
9. Spectral line transport
10. Refraction and polarized light
11. Numerical techniques for radiation transport
12. Examples
References
Index.