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With the aim of clarifying the nature of the core-collapse supernova events, we have developed a specifically tailored relativistic, radiation-hydrodynamics Lagrangian code, that enables us to simulate the evolution of the main observables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 M. L. Pumo , L. Zampieri

Many astrophysical systems of interest to numerical relativity-such as rapidly rotating stars, black hole accretion disks, and core-collapse supernovae-exhibit near-symmetries. These systems generally consist of a strongly gravitating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-20 Terrence Pierre Jacques , Samuel Cupp , Leonardo R. Werneck , Samuel D. Tootle , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton , Zachariah B. Etienne

We present a new Eulerian code able to follow the evolution of large-scale structures in the Universe in the weakly nonlinear regime. We compare test results with a N-body code and analytical results.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kudlicki , T. Plewa , M. Rozyczka

Massively-parallel, distributed-memory algorithms for the Lagrangian particle hydrodynamic method [R. Samulyak, X. Wang, H.-C. Chen, Lagrangian particle method for compressible fluid dynamics, J. Comput. Phys., 362 (2018), 1-19] have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 Shaohua Yuan , Mario Zepeda Aguilar , Nizar Naitlho , Roman Samulyak

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

We presented the first particle based, Lagrangian code that can follow the collisional/accretional/dynamical evolution of a large number of km-sized planetesimals through the entire growth process to become planets. We refer to it as the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Harold F. Levison , Martin J. Duncan , Edward Thommes

We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

We present the first results from our new general relativistic, Lagrangian hydrodynamics code, which treats gravity in the conformally flat (CF) limit. The evolution of fluid configurations is described using smoothed particle hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Joshua A. Faber , Philippe Grandclément , Frederic A. Rasio

Predicting physical dynamics from raw visual data remains a major challenge in AI. While recent video generation models have achieved impressive visual quality, they still cannot consistently generate physically plausible videos due to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shiqian Li , Ruihong Shen , Junfeng Ni , Chang Pan , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

We present a practical guide to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (\SPH) and its application to astrophysical problems. Although remarkably robust, \SPH\ must be used with care if the results are to be meaningful since the accuracy of \SPH\…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Martin , F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas

PySPH is an open-source, Python-based, framework for particle methods in general and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in particular. PySPH allows a user to define a complete SPH simulation using pure Python. High-performance code is…

The code we describe (FLY) is a newly written code (using the tree N-body method), for three-dimensional self-gravitating collisionless systems evolution. FLY is a fully parallel code based on the tree Barnes-Hut algorithm and periodical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu

We present an object-oriented geophysical and astrophysical spectral-element adaptive refinement (GASpAR) code for application to turbulent flows. Like most spectral-element codes, GASpAR combines finite-element efficiency with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Duane Rosenberg , Aime' Fournier , Paul Fischer , Annick Pouquet

REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem. It is highly modular and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-24 Hanno Rein , Shang-Fei Liu

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 and test a general-purpose code, called PPASPH, for evolving self-gravitating fluids in astrophysics, both with and without a collisionless component. In PPASPH, hydrodynamical properties are computed by using the SPH (Smoothed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arturo Serna , Jean-Michel Alimi , Jean-Pierre Chieze

We describe Pegasus, a new hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell code tailored for the study of astrophysical plasma dynamics. The code incorporates an energy-conserving particle integrator into a stable, second-order--accurate, three-stage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone , Xue-Ning Bai

We describe an accurate, one-dimensional, spherically symmetric, Lagrangian hydrodynamics/gravity code, designed to study the effects of radiative cooling and photo-ionization on the formation of protogalaxies. The code can treat an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. A. Thoul , D. H. Weinberg

Direct $N$-body simulations of a large number of particles, especially in the study of planetesimal dynamics and planet formation, have been computationally challenging even with modern machines. This work presents the combination of fully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Tommy Chi Ho Lau , Man Hoi Lee

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, while the current state-of-the art methodology for generating theoretical predictions for the large scale structures of the Universe, are among the most expensive simulation tools, requiring upwards…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Antoine Bourdin , Ronan Legin , Matthew Ho , Alexandre Adam , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur