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A major goal of computational astrophysics is to simulate the Milky Way Galaxy with sufficient resolution down to individual stars. However, the scaling fails due to some small-scale, short-timescale phenomena, such as supernova explosions.…

An efficient parallelization approach to simulate optical properties of ensembles of quantum emitters in realistic electromagnetic environments is considered. It relies on balancing computing load of utilized processors and is built into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maxim Sukharev

We investigate core-collapse supernova (CCSN) nucleosynthesis with self-consistent, axisymmetric (2D) simulations performed using the radiation-hydrodynamics code Chimera. Computational costs have traditionally constrained the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-27 J. Austin Harris , W. Raphael Hix , Merek A. Chertkow , C. -T. Lee , Eric J. Lentz , O. E. Bronson Messer

In the paper we discuss the main features of the software package for numerical simulations of the surface water dynamics. We consider an approximation of the shallow water equations together with the parallel technologies for NVIDIA CUDA…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Tatyana Dyakonova , Alexander Khoperskov , Sergey Khrapov

Context: Numerical simulations of stellar convection and photospheres have been developed to the point where detailed shapes of observed spectral lines can be explained. Stellar atmospheres are very complex, and very different physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Boris V. Gudiksen , Mats Carlsson , Viggo H. Hansteen , Wolfgang Hayek , Jorrit Leenaarts , Juan Martínez-Sykora

In this article we introduce a novel coupled algorithm for massively parallel direct numerical simulations of electrophoresis in microfluidic flows. This multiphysics algorithm employs an Eulerian description of fluid and ions, combined…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Dominik Bartuschat , Ulrich Rüde

To harness the full benefit of new computing platforms, it is necessary to develop software with parallel computing capabilities. This is no less true for statisticians than for astrophysicists. The R programming language, which is perhaps…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-08 George Ostrouchov , Wei-Chen Chen , Drew Schmidt

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

Multiscale and inhomogeneous molecular systems are challenging topics in the field of molecular simulation. In particular, modeling biological systems in the context of multiscale simulations and exploring material properties are driving a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Horacio V. Guzman , Christoph Junghans , Kurt Kremer , Torsten Stuehn

We present the new parallel version (pCRASH2) of the cosmological radiative transfer code CRASH2 for distributed memory supercomputing facilities. The code is based on a static domain decomposition strategy inspired by geometric dilution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adrian M. Partl , Antonella Maselli , Benedetta Ciardi , Andrea Ferrara , Volker Müller

Numerical solution of reaction-diffusion equations in three dimensions is one of the most challenging applied mathematical problems. Since these simulations are very time consuming, any ideas and strategies aiming at the reduction of CPU…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Ferenc Molnar , Ferenc Izsak , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

In this paper we combine the Parareal parallel-in-time method together with spatial parallelization and investigate this space-time parallel scheme by means of solving the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Roberto Croce , Daniel Ruprecht , Rolf Krause

The treatment of convection remains a major weakness in the modelling of stellar evolution with one-dimensional (1D) codes. The ever increasing computing power makes now possible to simulate in 3D part of a star for a fraction of its life,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 C. Georgy , F. Rizzuti , R. Hirschi , V. Varma , W. D. Arnett , C. Meakin , M. Mocak , A. StJ. Murphy , T. Rauscher

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

This paper addresses the problem of parallelizing computations to study non-linear dynamics in large networks of non-locally coupled oscillators using heterogeneous computing resources. The proposed approach can be applied to a variety of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-04 Oleksandr Sudakov , Volodymyr Maistrenko

Typical biomolecular systems such as cellular membranes, DNA, and protein complexes are highly charged. Thus, efficient and accurate treatment of electrostatic interactions is of great importance in computational modelling of such systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Patra , Marja T. Hyvonen , Emma Falck , Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi , Ilpo Vattulainen , Mikko Karttunen

ChaNGa is an N-body cosmology simulation application implemented using Charm++. In this paper, we present the parallel design of ChaNGa and address many challenges arising due to the high dynamic ranges of clustered datasets. We focus on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-09 Harshitha Menon , Lukasz Wesolowski , Gengbin Zheng , Pritish Jetley , Laxmikant Kale , Thomas Quinn , Fabio Governato

With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

After decades, the theoretical study of core-collapse supernova explosions is moving from parameterized, spherically symmetric models to increasingly realistic multi-dimensional simulations. Obtaining nucleosynthesis yields based on such…

Simulations based on particle methods, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), are known to be computationally demanding. While such methods have for long been executed in parallel on multi-core CPUs, in recent years the increasing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xiangyu Hu , Alberto Guarnieri