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We explore using the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) to develop a semantic simulation. We provide two proof-of-concept demonstrations modeling transitions in a simulated gasoline engine using a general-purpose programming language.…

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The potential of deep learning-based image-to-image translations has recently attracted significant attention. One possible application of such a framework is as a fast, approximate alternative to cosmological simulations, which would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Xiaofeng Dong , Nesar Ramachandra , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

Understanding how cosmological parameters influence the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra is a central component of modern cosmology education, but interactive exploration is often limited by computational cost or technical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Andreas Nygaard , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

We present a novel $N$-body simulation method that compactifies the infinite spatial extent of the Universe into a finite sphere with isotropic boundary conditions to follow the evolution of the large-scale structure. Our approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , István Csabai , László Dobos

A relativistic generalisation of a well-known method for approximating the dynamics of topological defects in condensed matter is constructed, and applied to the evolution of domain walls in a cosmological context. It is shown that there…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Mark Hindmarsh

We demonstrate that the experimental evolution of an annular, laser-driven plasma shock wave, expanding over time and undergoing self-interaction gives rise to multiple shock structures that evolve analogously to a multicomponent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Felipe A. Asenjo , Felipe Veloso , Julio C. Valenzuela

Monte Carlo methods provide detailed and accurate results for radiation transport simulations. Unfortunately, the high computational cost of these methods limits its usage in real-time applications. Moreover, existing computer codes do not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 V. Giménez-Alventosa , V. Giménez Gómez , S. Oliver Gil

The sheer sizes of modern datasets are forcing data-structure designers to consider seriously both parallel construction and compactness. To achieve those goals we need to design a parallel algorithm with good scalability and with low…

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GROMACS is a widely used package for biomolecular simulation, and over the last two decades it has evolved from small-scale efficiency to advanced heterogeneous acceleration and multi-level parallelism targeting some of the largest…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Páll Szilárd , Mark James Abraham , Carsten Kutzner , Berk Hess , Erik Lindahl

The need for computational resources grows as computational algorithms gain popularity in different sectors of the scientific community. This search has stimulated the development of several cloud platforms that abstract the complexity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Henrique C. T. Santos , Luciano S. de Souza , Jonathan H. A. de Carvalho , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

We describe AMUSE, the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment, a programming framework designed to manage multi-scale, multi-physics simulations in a hierarchical, extensible, and internally consistent way. Constructed as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Stephen McMillan , Simon Portegies Zwart , Arjen van Elteren , Alfred Whitehead

We present $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body cosmological simulations in the framework of a static general scalar-tensor theory of gravity. Due to the influence of the non-minimally coupled scalar field, the gravitational potential is modified by a…

The growing ambition for space exploration demands robust autonomous systems that can operate in unstructured environments under extreme extraterrestrial conditions. The adoption of robot learning in this domain is severely hindered by the…

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We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe, without postulating any underlying theoretical model. To this end, we use a Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia Union 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

We perform large-scale cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations directly via numerical relativity. Starting with initial conditions sampled from the cosmic microwave background, we track the emergence of a cosmic web without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hayley J. Macpherson , Daniel J. Price , Paul D. Lasky

The possibility of an expanding decelerating Universe in the distant future is investigated in the context of a quintessence scalar field cosmology. Such a conceivable evolution is tested against SNe Ia and $H(z)$ cosmic chronometers data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 A. A. Escobal , J. F. Jesus , S. H. Pereira , J. A. S. Lima

A range of cosmological observations demonstrate an accelerated expansion of the Universe, and the most likely explanation of this phenomenon is a cosmological constant. Given the importance of understanding the underlying physics, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Karoline Loeve , Kristine Simone Nielsen , Steen H. Hansen

We perform a scaling and performance portability study of the particle-in-cell scheme for plasma physics applications through a set of mini-apps we name "Alpine", which can make use of exascale computing capabilities. The mini-apps are…

Cosmological shock waves are essential to understanding the formation of cosmological structures. To study them, scientists run computationally expensive high-resolution 3D hydrodynamic simulations. Interpreting the simulation results is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Max Lamparth , Ludwig Böss , Ulrich Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag

We introduce and explore "paired" cosmological simulations. A pair consists of an A and B simulation with initial conditions related by the inversion $\delta_A(x, t_{initial})=-\delta_B(x,t_{initial})$ (underdensities substituted for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Andrew Pontzen , Anže Slosar , Nina Roth , Hiranya V. Peiris