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High-performance computing platforms are becoming more and more heterogeneous, which makes it very difficult for researchers and scientific software developers to keep up with the rapid changes on the hardware market. In this paper, the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Matthias Möller , Andrzej Jaeschke

We describe numerical methods for incorporating gas dynamics into cosmological simulations and present illustrative applications to the cold dark matter (CDM) scenario. Our evolution code, a version of TreeSPH (Hernquist \& Katz 1989)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Neal Katz , David H. Weinberg , Lars Hernquist

We present the open source Astrophysical Multi-purpose Software Environment (AMUSE, www.amusecode.org), a component library for performing astrophysical simulations involving different physical domains and scales. It couples existing codes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 F. I. Pelupessy , A. van Elteren , N. de Vries , S. L. W. McMillan , N. Drost , S. F. Portegies Zwart

We present a numerical code for multi-component simulation of the galactic evolution. Our code includes the following parts: $N$-body is used to evolve dark matter, stellar dynamics and dust grains, gas dynamics is based on TVD-MUSCL scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. V. Khoperskov , V. N. Lubimov

Hybrid codes are widely used to model ion-scale phenomena in space plasmas. Hybrid codes differ from full particle (PIC) codes in that the electrons are modeled as a fluid that is usually assumed to be massless, while the electric field is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 D. Winske , Homa Karimabadi , Ari Le , N. Omidi , Vadim Roytershteyn , Adam Stanier

We report the development of programs for on-the-fly surface hopping dynamics simulations in the gas and condensed phases on the potential energy surfaces computed by multistate multireference perturbation theory (XMS-CASPT2) with full…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 Jae Woo Park , Toru Shiozaki

We present a new N-body and gas dynamics code, called Nyx, for large-scale cosmological simulations. Nyx follows the temporal evolution of a system of discrete dark matter particles gravitationally coupled to an inviscid ideal fluid in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ann Almgren , John Bell , Mike Lijewski , Zarija Lukić , Ethan Van Andel

A second-order accurate divergence-conserving hybrid particle-in-cell code Maximus has been developed for microscopic modeling of collisionless plasmas. The main specifics of the code include a constrained transport algorithm for exact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 J. A. Kropotina , A. M. Bykov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

Assuming the existence of a Multidirectional Homogeneous and Constant Shower of Elementary Particles (MHCSEP) traveling at light speed in space, several basic laws of physics are derived mainly by geometrical considerations. When placing…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonny Heiss

Nowadays, software is one of the cornerstones when conducting research in several scientific fields which employ computer-based methodologies to answer new research questions. However, for these experiments to be completely reproducible,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Herminio García-González

Extending the famous Model B for the time evolution of a liquid mixture, we derive an approximate expression for the mobility matrix that couples the different mixture components. This approach is based on a single component fluid with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Maryam Akaberian , Filipe C Thewes , Peter Sollich , Matthias Krüger

The practice-based learning methodologies offer to undergraduate professors different ways to illustrate certain general physic principles. Traditional experimental workbenches have been extensively used during decades for academic lessons…

We present a study of the dynamics of multi-component models of spiral galaxies at various stages of grand merging. Numerical models include a self-consistent account of the dynamics of collisionless stellar subsystems and N-body dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Alexander Khoperskov , Sergei Khrapov , Danila Sirotin , Anatoly Zasov

This article presents updates to lifex [Africa, SoftwareX (2022)], a C++ library for high-performance finite element simulations of multiphysics, multiscale and multidomain problems. In this release, we introduce an additional intergrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Michele Bucelli

Granular gases are fascinating non-equilibrium systems with interesting features such as spontaneous clustering and non-Gaussian velocity distributions. Mixtures of different components represent a much more natural composition than…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-11 Dmitry Puzyrev , Torsten Trittel , Kirsten Harth , Ralf Stannarius

We present the extension of the differentiable hydrodynamics code, diffhydro, enabling scalable PDE-constrained inference and integrated hybrid physics-ML models for a wide range of astrophysical applications. New physics additions include…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku

Building a self-gravitating hydrodynamic code as a combination of a hydrodynamic solver and a gravity solver is discussed. We show that straightforward combining those two solvers generally leads to a code that does not conserve energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Edmund Bertschinger

We extend the state-of-the-art N-body code PKDGRAV3 with the inclusion of mesh-free gas hydrodynamics for cosmological simulations. Two new hydrodynamic solvers have been implemented, the mesh-less finite volume and mesh-less finite mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Isaac Alonso Asensio , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Douglas Potter , Joachim Stadel

We present a new chemodynamical code based on the adaptive mesh refinement code RAMSES. The new code uses Eulerian hydrodynamics and N-body dynamics in a cosmological framework to trace the production and advection of several chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-13 C. Gareth Few , Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson

The paper presents the results of computation of some simple internal flows of incompressible fluid with the software package CFX-5. In the previous paper of the author, the same flows were used for testing of another CFD software tool,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey N. Kochevsky