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Reconstructing the initial conditions of the universe is a key problem in cosmology. Methods based on simulating the forward evolution of the universe have provided a way to infer initial conditions consistent with present-day observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-11 Ronan Legin , Matthew Ho , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Shirley Ho , Yashar Hezaveh , Benjamin Wandelt

Resolving the most fundamental questions in cosmology requires simulations that match the scale, fidelity, and physical complexity demanded by next-generation sky surveys. To achieve the realism needed for this critical scientific…

Numerical simulations are a key tool to decipher the dynamics of gravitation. Yet, they fail to spatially reproduce the Universe we observe, limiting comparison between observations and simulations to a statistical level. This is highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Aurélien Valade , Noam Libeskind , Daniel Pomarède , Richard Stiskalek , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber , R. Brent Tully

We reply to some comments in astro-ph/0309381 concerning the problem of setting-up initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Thierry Baertschiger , Francesco Sylos Labini

In this paper we describe the set of ``New Worlds Simulations'', three very large cosmology simulations, Qo'noS, Vulcan, and Ferenginar, that were carried out on the Summit supercomputer with the Hardware/Hybrid Cosmology Code, HACC. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Katrin Heitmann , Thomas Uram , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Adrian Pope , Silvio Rizzi , Joe Insley

Modern cosmological observations allow us to study in great detail the evolution and history of the large scale structure hierarchy. The fundamental problem of accurate constraints on the cosmological parameters, within a given cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Dolag , S. Borgani , S. Schindler , A. Diaferio , A. M. Bykov

We present a first-principles computer code package (ABACUS) that is based on density functional theory and numerical atomic basis sets. Theoretical foundations and numerical techniques used in the code are described, with focus on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Pengfei Li , Xiaohui Liu , Mohan Chen , Peize Lin , Xinguo Ren , Lin Lin , Chao Yang , Lixin He

Reconstructing cosmological initial conditions (ICs) from late-time observations is a difficult task, which relies on the use of computationally expensive simulators alongside sophisticated statistical methods to navigate multi-million…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Oleg Savchenko , Florian List , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

In contrast to regular ordinary differential equations, the problem of accurately setting initial conditions just emerges in the context of differential-algebraic equations where the dynamic degree of freedom of the system is smaller than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Michael Hanke , Roswitha März

We review the field of collisionless numerical simulations for the large-scale structure of the Universe. We start by providing the main set of equations solved by these simulations and their connection with General Relativity. We then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn

Analysis of three-dimensional cosmological surveys has the potential to answer outstanding questions on the initial conditions from which structure appeared, and therefore on the very high energy physics at play in the early Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Florent Leclercq

We determine sufficient and necessary conditions for a spherically symmetric initial data set to satisfy the dynamical horizon conditions in the spacetime development. The constraint equations reduce to a single second order linear master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Robert Bartnik , Jim Isenberg

We address the generation of initial conditions (ICs) for GRAMSES, a code for nonlinear general relativistic (GR) $N$-body cosmological simulations recently introduced in Ref. [1]. GRAMSES adopts a constant mean curvature slicing with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li

Numerical simulations play a key important role in modern cosmology. Examples are plenty including the cosmic web - large scale structure of the distribution of galaxies in space - which was first observed in N-body simulations and later…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Johan Comparat

Knowledge of the primordial matter density field from which the large-scale structure of the Universe emerged over cosmic time is of fundamental importance for cosmology. However, reconstructing these cosmological initial conditions from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Oleg Savchenko , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Florian List , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

We review existing SPH setup methods and outline their advantages, limitations and drawbacks. We present a new method for constructing initial conditions for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, which may also be of interest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Steven Diehl , Gabriel Rockefeller , Christopher L. Fryer , David Riethmiller , Thomas S. Statler

This article describes a data center hosting a web portal for accessing and sharing the output of large, cosmological, hydro-dynamical simulations with a broad scientific community. It also allows users to receive related scientific data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Antonio Ragagnin , Klaus Dolag , Veronica Biffi , Marionne Cadolle Bel , Nicolay J. Hammer , Aliaksei Krukau , Margarita Petkova , Daniel Steinborn

Computer aided engineering of multi-time-scale plasma systems which exhibit a quasi-steady state solution are challenging due to the large number of time steps required to reach convergence. Machine learning techniques combined with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Andrew T. Powis , Domenica Corona Rivera , Alexander Khrabry , Igor D. Kaganovich

In cosmological $N$-body simulations, the representation of dark matter as discrete "macroparticles" suppresses the growth of structure, such that simulations no longer reproduce linear theory on small scales near $k_{\rm Nyquist}$. Marcos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Marc V. Metchnik , Philip A. Pinto

Cosmological simulations are the key tool for investigating the different processes involved in the formation of the universe from small initial density perturbations to galaxies and clusters of galaxies observed today. The identification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steffen R. Knollmann , Alexander Knebe