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We describe a grid-based numerical method for 3D hydrodynamic cosmological simulations which is adaptive in space and time and combines the best features of higher order--accurate Godunov schemes for Eulerian hydrodynamics with adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

Gravitational instabilities naturally give rise to multi-scale structure, which is difficult for traditional Eulerian hydrodynamic methods to accurately evolve. This can be circumvented by adaptively adding resolution (in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Bryan , M. L. Norman

Several extensions of the standard cosmological model include scalar fields as new degrees of freedom in the underlying gravitational theory. A particular class of these scalar field theories include screening mechanisms intended to hide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

We present a new chemodynamical code based on the adaptive mesh refinement code RAMSES. The new code uses Eulerian hydrodynamics and N-body dynamics in a cosmological framework to trace the production and advection of several chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-13 C. Gareth Few , Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson

We present a detailed comparison between two adaptive numerical approaches to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), adaptive multiresolution (MR) and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Both discretizations are based on finite volumes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Ralf Deiterding , Margarete O. Domingues , Sonia M. Gomes , Kai Schneider

We introduce a new code, ECOSMOG, to run N-body simulations for a wide class of modified gravity and dynamical dark energy theories. These theories generally have one or more new dynamical degrees of freedom, the dynamics of which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Romain Teyssier , Kazuya Koyama

This paper introduces a hybrid numerical scheme for the fuzzy dark matter model: It combines a wave-based approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation using Fourier continuations with Gram polynomials and a fluid-based approach to solve the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Alexander Kunkel , Hei Yin Jowett Chan , Hsi-Yu Schive , Hsinhao Huang , Pin-Yu Liao

We propose a novel dispersive regularization framework for the numerical simulation of the one-dimensional shallow water equations (SWE). The classical hyperbolic system is regularized by a third-order dispersive term in the momentum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Guosheng Fu , Chun Liu

We compare two different codes for simulations of cosmological structure formation to investigate the sensitivity of hydrodynamical instabilities to numerics, in particular, the hydro solver and the application of adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 W. Schmidt , J. Schulz , L. Iapichino , F. Vazza , A. S. Almgren

The distinctive effects of fuzzy dark matter are most visible at non-linear galactic scales. We present the first simulations of mixed fuzzy and cold dark matter, obtained with an extended version of the Nyx code. Fuzzy (or ultralight, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Bodo Schwabe , Mateja Gosenca , Christoph Behrens , Jens C. Niemeyer , Richard Easther

We have carried out numerical simulations of strongly gravitating systems based on the Einstein equations coupled to the relativistic hydrodynamic equations using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques. We show AMR simulations of NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Edwin Evans , Sai Iyer , Erik Schnetter , Wai-Mo Suen , Jian Tao , Randy Wolfmeyer , Hui-Min Zhang

We develop a high accuracy power series method for solving partial differential equations with emphasis on the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. The accuracy and computing speed can be systematically and arbitrarily increased to orders of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 L. Al Sakkaf , U. Al Khawaja

A new cosmological multidimensional hydrodynamic and N-body code based on an Adaptive Mesh Refinement scheme is described and tested. The hydro part is based on modern high-resolution shock-capturing techniques, whereas N-body approach is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicent Quilis

In this paper, we present the Stroboscopic Averaging Method (SAM), recently introduced in [7,8,10,12], which aims at numerically solving highly-oscillatory differential equations. More specifically, we first apply SAM to the Schr\"odinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Philippe Chartier , Norbert J. Mauser , Florian Méhats , Yong Zhang

This article presents a hardware architecture independent implementation of an adaptive mesh refinement Poisson solver that is integrated into the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell beam dynamics code OPAL. The Poisson solver is solely based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Matthias Frey , Andreas Adelmann , Uldis Locans

Cartesian-grid methods with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) are ideally suited for simulating the breaking of waves, the formation of spray, and the entrainment of air around ships. As a result of the cartesian-grid formulation, minimal…

High precision atomic data is indispensable for experiments involving studies of fundamental interactions, astrophysics, atomic clocks, plasma science, and others. We develop new parallel atomic structure codes and explore the difficulties…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 C. Cheung , M. S. Safronova , S. G. Porsev

Computational studies that use block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) approaches suffer from unnecessarily high mesh resolution in regions adjacent to important solution features. This deficiency limits the performance of AMR…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Brandon Gusto , Tomasz Plewa

We study the implications of relaxing the requirement for ultralight axions to account for all dark matter in the Universe by examining mixed dark matter (MDM) cosmologies with axion fractions $f \leq 0.3$ within the fuzzy dark matter (FDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tibor Dome , Simon May , Alex Laguë , David J. E. Marsh , Sarah Johnston , Sownak Bose , Alex Tocher , Anastasia Fialkov

We demonstrate that the Vlasov equation describing collisionless self-gravitating matter may be solved with the so-called Schr\"odinger method (ScM). With the ScM, one solves the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system of equations for a complex wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Kopp , Kyriakos Vattis , Constantinos Skordis