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$N$-body integrations are used to model a wide range of astrophysical dynamics, but they suffer from errors which make their orbits diverge exponentially in time from the correct orbits. Over long time-scales, their reliability needs to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 David M. Hernandez , Sam Hadden , Junichiro Makino

The gravitational N-body simulation in the Solar system was performed using different parallel approaches with the comparisons in the computational times and speed-up values being carried out under different model sizes and the number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tailin Zhu

Modern N-body techniques for planetary dynamics are generally based on symplectic algorithms specially adapted to the Kepler problem. These methods have proven very useful in studying planet formation, but typically require the timestep for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. S. McNeil , R. P. Nelson

Many problems in science and engineering require an efficient numerical approximation of integrals or solutions to differential equations. For systems with rapidly changing dynamics, an equidistant discretization is often inadvisable as it…

Symplectic integration algorithms have become popular in recent years in long-term orbital integrations because these algorithms enforce certain conservation laws that are intrinsic to Hamiltonian systems. For problems with large variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Man Hoi Lee , Martin J. Duncan , Harold F. Levison

We investigate a local incremental stationary scheme for the numerical solution of rate-independent systems. Such systems are characterized by a (possibly) non-convex energy and a dissipation potential, which is positively homogeneous of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Merlin Andreia , Christian Meyer

We describe an algorithm for constructing N-body realisations of equilibrium stellar systems. The algorithm complements existing orbit-based modelling techniques using linear programming or other optimization algorithms. The equilibria are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Syer , S. Tremaine

The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

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

We present two types of meta-algorithm that can greatly improve the accuracy of existing algorithms for integrating the equations of motion of dynamical systems. The first meta-algorithm takes an integrator that is time-symmetric only for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Yoko Funato , Eiichiro Kokubo , Junichiro Makino , Steve McMillan

By combining a standard symmetric, symplectic integrator with a new step size controller, we provide an integration scheme that is symmetric, reversible and conserves the values of the constants of motion. This new scheme is appropriate for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-07 Jonathan Seyrich , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We present a new implicit asymptotic preserving time integration scheme for charged-particle orbit computation in arbitrary electromagnetic fields. The scheme is built on the Crank-Nicolson integrator and continues to recover full-orbit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Lee F. Ricketson , Luis Chacón

A fixed time-step variational integrator cannot preserve momentum, energy, and symplectic form simultaneously for nonintegrable systems. This barrier can be overcome by treating time as a discrete dynamic variable and deriving adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Harsh Sharma , Jeff Borggaard , Mayuresh Patil , Craig Woolsey

We show that adaptive time stepping in particle accelerator simulation is an enhancement for certain problems. The new algorithm has been implemented in the OPAL (Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library) framework, and is compared to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Matthias Toggweiler , Andreas Adelmann , Peter Arbenz , Jianjun J. Yang

The automatic selection of an appropriate time step size has been considered extensively in the literature. However, most of the strategies developed operate under the assumption that the computational cost (per time step) is independent of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Lukas Einkemmer

When fitting N-body models to astronomical data - including transit times, radial velocity, and astrometric positions at observed times - the derivatives of the model outputs with respect to the initial conditions can help with model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Eric Agol , David M. Hernandez , Zachary Langford

We revisit adaptive time stepping, one of the classical topics of numerical analysis and computational engineering. While widely used in application and subject of many theoretical works, a complete understanding is still missing. Apart…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Michael Feischl , David Niederkofler

Discrete Element Methods (DEM), i.e.~the simulation of many rigid particles, suffer from very stiff differential equations plus multiscale challenges in space and time. The particles move smoothly through space until they interact almost…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Peter Noble , Tobias Weinzierl

In this work, we propose a numerical approach for simulations of large deformations of interfaces in a level set framework. To obtain a fast and viable numerical solution in both time and space, temporal discretization is based on the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aymen Laadhari , Ahmad Deeb

We propose an experimental study of adaptive time-stepping methods for efficient modeling of the aggregation-fragmentation kinetics. Precise modeling of this phenomena usually requires utilization of the large systems of nonlinear ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Sergey A. Matveev , Viktor Zhilin , Alexander P. Smirnov