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Many astrophysical simulations involve extreme dynamic range of timescales around 'special points' in the domain (e.g. black holes, stars, planets, disks, galaxies, shocks, mixing interfaces), where processes on small scales couple strongly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Philip F. Hopkins , Elias R. Most

In this paper we continue our work on adaptive timestep control for weakly non- stationary problems. The core of the method is a space-time splitting of adjoint error representations for target functionals due to S\"uli and Hartmann. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Christina Steiner , Siegfried Müller , Sebastian Noelle

We design an accurate orbital integration scheme for the general N-body problem preserving all the conserved quantities but the angular momentum.This scheme is based on the chain concept (Mikkola & Aarseth 1993) and is regarded as an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Yukitaka Minesaki

This paper addresses the scheduling problem of minimizing the total weighted tardiness on a single machine with step-deteriorating jobs. With the assumption of deterioration, the job processing times are modeled by step functions of job…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Peng Guo , Wenming Cheng , Yi Wang

We introduce a numerical method to integrate tidal effects on collisional systems, using any definition of the external potential as a function of space and time. Rather than using a linearisation of the tidal field, this new method follows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Renaud , Mark Gieles

Irreversibility, despite being a necessary condition for thermalization, still lacks a sound understanding in the context of isolated quantum many-body systems. In this work we approach this question by studying the behavior of generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Markus Schmitt , Stefan Kehrein

In this paper we introduce adaptive time step control for simulation of evolution of ice sheets. The discretization error in the approximations is estimated using "Milne's device" by comparing the result from two different methods in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Gong Cheng , Per Lötstedt , Lina von Sydow

In this paper, we present a new hybrid algorithm for the time integration of collisional N-body systems. In this algorithm, gravitational force between two particles is divided into short-range and long-range terms, using a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shoichi Oshino , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino

I describe here the performance of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

The single-step explicit time integration methods have long been valuable for solving large-scale nonlinear structural dynamic problems, classified into single-solve and multi-sub-step approaches. However, no existing explicit single-solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Liu Yaokun , Li Jinze , Yu Kaiping

A classical reduced order model for dynamical problems involves spatial reduction of the problem size. However, temporal reduction accompanied by the spatial reduction can further reduce the problem size without losing accuracy much, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Youngsoo Choi , Peter Brown , Bill Arrighi , Robert Anderson

Many time-dependent differential equations are equipped with invariants. Preserving such invariants under discretization can be important, e.g., to improve the qualitative and quantitative properties of numerical solutions. Recently,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Sebastian Bleecke , Hendrik Ranocha

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

Direct-summation N-body algorithms compute the gravitational interaction between stars in an exact way and have a computational complexity of O(N^2). Performance can be greatly enhanced via the use of special-purpose accelerator boards like…

A method for adaptive model order reduction for nonsmooth discrete element simulation is developed and analysed in numerical experiments. Regions of the granular media that collectively move as rigid bodies are substituted with rigid bodies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Martin Servin , Da Wang

One of the fundamental aspects of statistical behaviour in many-body systems is exponential divergence of neighbouring orbits, which is often discussed in terms of Liapounov exponents. Here we study this topic for the classical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Hut , D. C. Heggie

We propose a computer-assisted approach to studying the effective continuum behavior of spatially discrete evolution equations. The advantage of the approach is that the "coarse model" (the continuum, effective equation) need not be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Moeller , O. Runborg , P. G. Kevrekidis , K. Lust , I. G. Kevrekidis

The main performance bottleneck of gravitational N-body codes is the force calculation between two particles. We have succeeded in speeding up this pair-wise force calculation by factors between two and ten, depending on the code and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut

A criterion for the choice of optimal softening length $\epsilon$ and time-step $dt$ for $N$-body simulations of a collisionless stellar system is analyzed. Plummer and Hernquist spheres are used as models to follow how changes in various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Rodionov , N. Ya. Sotnikova

Numerical solutions to fractional differential equations can be extremely computationally intensive due to the effect of non-local derivatives in which all previous time points contribute to the current iteration. In finite difference…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Brian P. Sprouse , Christopher L. MacDonald , Gabriel A. Silva