The observational signature of supernova remnants (SNRs) is very complex, in
terms of both their geometrical shape and their spectral properties, dominated
by non-thermal synchrotron and inverse-Compton scattering. We propose a
post-processing method to analyse the broad-band emission of SNRs based on
three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. From the hydrodynamical data, we
estimate the distribution of non-thermal electrons accelerated at the shock
wave and follow the subsequent evolution as they lose or gain energy by
adiabatic expansion or compression and emit energy by radiation. As a first
test case, we use a simulation of a bipolar supernova expanding into a cloudy
medium. We find that our method qualitatively reproduces the main observational
features of typical SNRs and produces fluxes that agree with observations to
within a factor of a few. allowing for further use in more extended sets of
models.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures; accepted, HEDLA 2014 special issue of High
Energy Density Physic
