Monte Carlo Radiation Hydrodynamics: Application to Stellar Winds (MNRAS paper)
An important step in the development of the Monte Carlo Radiation Hydrodynamical approach MCRH has been completed. Having demonstrated the basic operation of this method and an application to Type Ia supernova ejecta in a first paper, we have now successfully used MCRH in the context of momentum-driven mass outflows from hot stars.
In particular, we demonstrated the utility of a Monte Carlo-based dynamical approach for studying hot-star line-driven winds by determining the wind structure and comparing it to results obtained with alternative methods. Here, we focussed on variants of the original CAK approach and the Monte Carlo-based hydrostatic approach of Müller & Vink 2008. The results of this study are summarized in a MNRAS paper.