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A collisional $N$-body simulation using NBODY5 on a single CRAY YMP processor is followed well into the post-collapse regime. This is presently one of the largest particle numbers of all such models published, but some data for an even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rainer Spurzem , Sverre J. Aarseth

We present MUSE, a software framework for combining existing computational tools for different astrophysical domains into a single multiphysics, multiscale application. MUSE facilitates the coupling of existing codes written in different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Stefan Harfst , Derek Groen , Michiko Fujii

Astrophysical Challenges which demand the solution of the one million (or more) gravitating body problem are briefly discussed for the fields of cosmology, galactic nuclei and globular star clusters. Results from the classical three-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Spurzem , A. Kugel

We make available to the public 4 dark matter simulations that cover 4 CDM cosmological models and were run with the AP^3M code (Couchamn 1991). These simulations are described in Colin et al. (ApJ, 523, 32, 1999). There are about 20 epochs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Colin , A. Klypin

The gravitational $N$-body problem is a nearly universal problem in astrophysics which, despite its deceptive simplicity, still presents a significant computational challenge. For collisional systems such as dense star clusters, the need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Kerwann Tep , Brian T. Cook , Carl L. Rodriguez , Jiya Jolly , Eddie Sawin , Michael S. Petersen , Christoph Gaffud

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 compare two different codes for simulations of cosmological structure formation to investigate the sensitivity of hydrodynamical instabilities to numerics, in particular, the hydro solver and the application of adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 W. Schmidt , J. Schulz , L. Iapichino , F. Vazza , A. S. Almgren

We perform numerical evolutions of cosmological scenarios using a standard general relativistic code in spherical symmetry. We concentrate on two different situations: initial matter distributions that are homogeneous and isotropic, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-09 Jose M. Torres , Miguel Alcubierre , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Dario Nunez

We present the first detailed comparison between million-body globular cluster simulations computed with a H\'enon-type Monte Carlo code, CMC, and a direct $N$-body code, NBODY6++GPU. Both simulations start from an identical cluster model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carl L. Rodriguez , Meagan Morscher , Long Wang , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio , Rainer Spurzem

We present a new numerical relativity code designed for simulations of compact binaries involving matter. The code is an upgrade of the BAM code to include general relativistic hydrodynamics and implements state-of-the-art…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-12 Marcus Thierfelder , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann

We present GRaM-X (General Relativistic accelerated Magnetohydrodynamics on AMReX), a new GPU-accelerated dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code which extends the GRMHD capability of Einstein Toolkit to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Steven R. Brandt , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Yannick de Graaf

We present $\texttt{MG-evolution}$, an $N$-body code simulating the cosmological structure formation for parametrised modifications of gravity. It is built from the combination of parametrised linear theory with a parametrisation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Farbod Hassani , Lucas Lombriser

We present a novel method for efficient direct integration of gravitational N-body systems with a large variation in characteristic time scales. The method is based on a recursive and adaptive partitioning of the system based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Jürgen Jänes , Federico I. Pelupessy , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

The cosmic neutrino background is an important component of the Universe that is difficult to include in cosmological simulations due to the extremely large velocity dispersion of neutrino particles. We develop a new approach to simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Derek Inman , Hao-ran Yu

Here we present a new particle-mesh galactic N-body code that uses the full multigrid algorithm for solving the modified Poisson equation of the Quasi Linear formulation of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (QUMOND). A novel approach for handling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Garry W. Angus , Kurt van der Heyden , Benoit Famaey , Gianfranco Gentile , Stacy S. McGaugh , W. J. G. de Blok

Computational chemistry allows researchers to experiment in sillico: by running a computer simulations of a biological or chemical processes of interest. Molecular dynamics with molecular mechanics model of interactions simulates N-body…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Jana Pazúriková

The numerical simulations of massive collisional stellar systems, such as globular clusters (GCs), are very time-consuming. Until now, only a few realistic million-body simulations of GCs with a small fraction of binaries (5%) have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Long Wang , Masaki Iwasawa , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a well-motivated dark matter candidate that solve some of the problems in the clustering of large scale structure in cosmology. ALPs are often described by a simplified quadratic potential to specify the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Harrison Winch , Renee Hlozek , David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin , Keir Rogers

Gas-poor galaxies can be modelled as composite collisionless stellar systems, with a dark matter halo and one or more stellar components, representing different stellar populations. The dynamical evolution of such composite systems is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Carlo Nipoti , Giacomo Cherchi , Giuliano Iorio , Francesco Calura

If the accelerated expansion of the Universe at the present epoch is driven by a dark energy scalar field, there may well be a non-trivial coupling between the dark energy and the cold dark matter (CDM) fluid. Such interactions give rise to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Marco Baldi , Valeria Pettorino , Georg Robbers , Volker Springel