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We develop a model of spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in Lorentzian Regge calculus, employing 4-dimensional Lorentzian frusta as building blocks. By examining the causal structure of the discrete spacetimes obtained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 Alexander F. Jercher , Sebastian Steinhaus

Generative models are a promising tool to produce cosmological simulations but face significant challenges in scalability, physical consistency, and adherence to domain symmetries, limiting their utility as alternatives to $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Diana-Alexandra Onutu , Yue Zhao , Joaquin Vanschoren , Vlado Menkovski

A fundamental relation in Lagrangian Kolmogorov theory is concerned with inertial range scaling of the second-order velocity structure function over intermediate time lags at sufficiently high Reynolds numbers. Significant theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Rohini Uma-Vaideswaran , P. K. Yeung

Over the last decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental for advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These simulations follow the non-linear evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-20 Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Ewald Puchwein

The paper deals with the developing of the methodological backgrounds for the modeling and simulation of complex dynamical objects. Such backgrounds allow us to perform coordinate transformation and formulate the algorithm of its usage for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Roman Voliansky , Andri Pranolo

Many scientific and engineering problems are modelled by simulating scalar fields defined either on space-filling meshes (Eulerian) or as particles (Lagrangian). For analysis and visualization, topological primitives such as contour trees…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Domantas Dilys , Hamish Carr , Steven Boeing

We present Cholla (Computational Hydrodynamics On ParaLLel Architectures), a new three-dimensional hydrodynamics code that harnesses the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate astrophysical simulations. Cholla models the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Evan E. Schneider , Brant E. Robertson

The simulation cost for cosmological simulation-based inference can be decreased by combining simulation sets of varying fidelity. We propose an approach to such multi-fidelity inference based on feature matching and knowledge distillation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Leander Thiele , Adrian E. Bayer , Naoya Takeishi

Cosmological field-level inference requires differentiable forward models that solve the challenging dynamics of gas and dark matter under hydrodynamics and gravity. We propose a hybrid approach where gravitational forces are computed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Arne Thomsen , Tilman Tröster , François Lanusse

We construct an effective cosmological spin-foam model for a (2+1) dimensional spatially flat universe, discretized on a hypercubical lattice, containing both space- and time-like regions. Our starting point is the recently proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Alexander F. Jercher , José Diogo Simão , Sebastian Steinhaus

Ground and space-based sky surveys enable powerful cosmological probes based on measurements of galaxy properties and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. These probes include weak lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations, abundance…

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

For problems in astrophysics, planetary science and beyond, numerical simulations are often limited to simulating fewer particles than in the real system. To model collisions, the simulated particles (aka superparticles) need to be inflated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 David Nesvorny , Andrew N. Youdin , Raphael Marschall , Derek C. Richardson

A new parallel algorithm utilizing partitioned global address space (PGAS) programming model to achieve high scalability is reported for particle tracking in direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow. The work is motivated by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Dhawal Buaria , P. K. Yeung

In this work, we present a high-fidelity and efficient point-particle direct numerical simulation framework based on a multi-block overset curvilinear grid system, enabling large-scale Lagrangian particle tracking in complex geometries with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Taiyang Wang , Baoqing Meng , Baolin Tian , Yaomin Zhao

In arXiv:1601.02203 and arXiv:1702.07063, we have proposed a topological model with a simple Lagrangian density and have tried to solve one of the cosmological constant problems. The Lagrangian density is the BRS exact and therefore the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Shin'ichi Nojiri

The advent of the new generation of wide field galaxy surveys makes large N-body cosmological simulations a necessary evil. While the cosmological simulation codes have evolved a lot since the first calculations in the 80s, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Claudio Llinares

We introduce a new self-consistent structure finding algorithm that parses large scale cosmological structure into clusters, filaments and voids. This structure finding algorithm probes the cosmological structure at multiple scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ali Snedden , Lara Arielle Phillips , Grant J. Mathews , Jared Coughlin , In-Saeng Suh , Aparna Bhattacharya

A unified simulator that can model diverse physical phenomena without solver-specific redesign is a long-standing goal across simulation science. We present a learning-based particle simulator built on a single transformer architecture to…

We introduce COBRA (Cosmology with Optimally factorized Bases of Radial Approximants), a novel framework for rapid computation of large-scale structure observables. COBRA separates scale dependence from cosmological parameters in the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Thomas Bakx , Nora Elisa Chisari , Zvonimir Vlah