English
Related papers

Related papers: Accurate initial conditions for cosmological N-bod…

200 papers

We consider a general relativistic zero-pressure irrotational cosmological medium perturbed to the third order. We assume a flat Friedmann background but include the cosmological constant. We ignore the rotational perturbation which decays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Hwang , H. Noh

Model reduction is a powerful tool in dealing with numerical simulation of large scale dynamic systems for studying complex physical systems. Two major types of model reduction methods for linear time-invariant dynamic systems are Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Lei-Hong Zhang , Ren-Cang Li

We investigate sources of error in acceleration statistics from Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT) data and demonstrate techniques to eliminate or minimise bias errors introduced during processing. Numerical simulations of particle tracking…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 John M. Lawson , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Cristian C. Lalescu , Michael Wilczek

Discreteness effects are a source of uncontrolled systematic errors of N-body simulations, which are used to compute the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid. We have already developed the so-called "Particle Linear Theory" (PLT), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Marcos

Three-dimensional cardiovascular fluid dynamics simulations typically require computation of several cardiac cycles before they reach a periodic solution, rendering them computationally expensive. Furthermore, there is currently no…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Martin R. Pfaller , Jonathan Pham , Nathan M. Wilson , David W. Parker , Alison L. Marsden

We critically examine how well the evolution of large-scale density perturbations is followed in cosmological $N$-body simulations. We first run a large volume simulation and perform a mode-by-mode analysis in three-dimensional Fourier…

We present a quantum computational framework using Hamiltonian Truncation (HT) for simulating real-time scattering processes in $(1+1)$-dimensional scalar $\phi^4$ theory. Unlike traditional lattice discretisation methods, HT approximates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams , Matthew Wingate

Previous work in the literature has studied the Hamiltonian structure of an R-squared model of gravity with torsion in a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. Within the framework of Dirac's theory, torsion is found to lead to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giampiero Esposito , Gabriele Gionti , Giuseppe Marmo , Cosimo Stornaiolo

Numerical simulations of crystal defects are necessarily restricted to finite computational domains, supplying artificial boundary conditions that emulate the effect of embedding the defect in an effectively infinite crystalline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 V. Ehrlacher , C. Ortner , A. V. Shapeev

Near-future cosmological observations targeted at investigations of dark energy pose stringent requirements on the accuracy of theoretical predictions for the clustering of matter. Currently, N-body simulations comprise the only viable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-25 Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , David Higdon

We introduce a new form of Lagrangian and propose a simple first-order algorithm for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear equality constraints. We show the algorithm generates bounded dual iterates, and establish the convergence to KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Jong Gwang Kim

The evolution of an isolated over-density represents a useful toy model to test the accuracy of a cosmological N-body code in the non linear regime as it is approximately equivalent to that of a truly isolated cloud of particles, with same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-07 Francesco Sylos Labini

We present and test a new numerical method to determine second-order Lagrangian displacement fields in the context of modified gravity (MG) theories. We start from the extension of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to a class of MG models that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Chiara Moretti , Simone Mozzon , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Munari , Marco Baldi

Conventional cosmological initial condition generators are designed exclusively for fully periodic cubic domains and cannot produce the non-periodic, observer-centric configurations required by stereographically projected N-body codes such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Balázs Pál , Gábor Rácz , István Csabai , István Szapudi

We consider the gravitational collapse of collisionless matter seeded by three crossed sine waves with various amplitudes, also in the presence of a linear external tidal field. We explore two theoretical methods that are more efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Cornelius Rampf , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Stéphane Colombi

We consider the dunking problem: a solid body at uniform temperature $T_{\text i}$ is placed in a environment characterized by farfield temperature $T_\infty$ and spatially uniform time-independent heat transfer coefficient. We permit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Kento Kaneko , Claude Le Bris , Anthony T. Patera

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate the dynamics of quantum systems. In this paper, we study the cost of digitally simulating the dynamics of several physically relevant systems using the first-order product formula algorithm. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Minh C. Tran , Su-Kuan Chu , Yuan Su , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We present the study of ten random realizations of a density field characterized by a cosmological power spectrum P(k) at redshift z=50. The reliability of such initial conditions for n-body simulations are tested with respect to their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Knebe , Alvaro Dominguez

This paper introduces a methodology for improving the accuracy and efficiency of reduced order models (ROMs) constructed using the least-squares Petrov-Galerkin (LSPG) projection method through the introduction of preconditioning. Unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Payton Lindsay , Jeffrey Fike , Irina Tezaur , Kevin Carlberg

Most linear algebra kernels in interior point methods for linear programming require the solution of linear systems of equation with the matrix $N = A^TD^{-1}A$ (or $AD^{-1}A^T$), where $A$ denotes the constraint matrix of the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Robert Luce