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The Tree-Particle-Mesh (TPM) N-body algorithm couples the tree algorithm for directly computing forces on particles in an hierarchical grouping scheme with the extremely efficient mesh based PM structured approach. The combined TPM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Guohong Xu

We present a Fortran 95 code for simulating the evolution of astrophysical systems using particles to represent the underlying fluid flow. The code is designed to be versatile, flexible and extensible, with modular options that can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 M. Wetzstein , Andrew F. Nelson , T. Naab , A. Burkert

We present a GPU-friendly framework for real-time implicit simulation of elastic material in the presence of frictional contacts. The integration of hyperelasticity, non-interpenetration contact, and friction in real-time simulations…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Ziqiu Zeng , Siyuan Luo , Fan Shi , Zhongkai Zhang

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Peter H. Colberg , Felix Höfling

We present Graphite, a GPU-accelerated nonlinear least squares graph optimization framework. It provides a CUDA C++ interface to enable the sharing of code between a real-time application, such as a SLAM system, and its optimization tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shishir Gopinath , Karthik Dantu , Steven Y. Ko

We propose an efficient method for active particle selection, working with Hermite Individual Time Steps (HITS) scheme in direct N-body simulation code $\varphi$GRAPE. For a simulation with $N$ particles, this method can reduce the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Shiyan Zhong

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

Recently, the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has been proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation in the whole range of gas rarefaction, where its fast-converging and asymptotic-preserving properties lead…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Ruifeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Qi Li , Lei Wu

We present a novel approach to accelerate astrophysical hydrodynamical simulations. In astrophysical many-body simulations, GRAPE (GRAvity piPE) system has been widely used by many researchers. However, in the GRAPE systems, its function is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Nakasato , T. Hamada , T. Fukushige

Most recent progress in understanding the dynamical evolution of star clusters relies on direct N-body simulations. Owing to the computational demands, and the desire to model more complex and more massive star clusters, hardware…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Anders , H. Baumgardt , E. Gaburov , S. Portegies Zwart

We describe a new algorithm for the integration of self-gravitating fluid systems using SPH method. We split the Hamiltonian of a self-gravitating fluid system to the gravitational potential and others (kinetic and internal energies) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

The generalized Schr\"odinger-Newton system of equations with both local and nonlocal nonlinearities is widely used to describe light propagating in nonlinear media under the paraxial approximation. However, its use is not limited to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Tiago D. Ferreira , Nuno A. Silva , O. Bertolami , C. Gomes , A. Guerreiro

The integration of the equations of motion of N interacting particles, represents a classical problem in many branches of physics and chemistry. The direct N-body problem is at the heart of simulations studying Coulomb Crystals. We present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez , Jim Dempsey

A combined N--body/SPH code is presented which benefits from the high speed of the special purpose hardware GRAPE (GRAvity PipE). Besides gravitational forces, GRAPE also returns the list of neighbours and can, therefore, be used to speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Steinmetz

We study the accumulation of errors in cosmological N-body algorithms that are caused by representing the continuous distribution of matter by massive particles, comparing the PPPM and Adaptive Multigrid codes. We use for this a new measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivar Suisalu , Enn Saar

We report on resent N-body simulations of galaxy formation performed on the GRAPE-4 (GRAvity PipE) system, a special-purpose computer for astrophysical N-body simulations. We review the astrophysical motivation, the algorithm, the actual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

We present a code allowing to evolve three-dimensional self-gravitating collisionless systems with a large number of particles N >= 10^7. FLY (Fast Level-based N-bodY code) is a fully parallel code based on a tree algorithm. It adopts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , F. Buonomo , C. Gheller

Accurate gravity field calculations are necessary for landing on planets, moons, asteroids, minimoons, or other irregularly shaped bodies, but current methods become increasingly inaccurate and slow near the surface. We present high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Thomas MacLean , Alan H. Barr

Symplectic integrators are a foundation to the study of dynamical $N$-body phenomena, at scales ranging from from planetary to cosmological. These integrators preserve the Poincar\'e invariants of Hamiltonian dynamics. The $N$-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 David M. Hernandez