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This paper provides open-source code that works as a viscometer of particle-based simulations of three-dimensional fluid-particle interaction systems, targetting slurry or suspension flow in chemical engineering. The smoothed dissipative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Satori Tsuzuki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are sensitive to structural noise from adversarial attacks or imperfections. Existing graph contrastive learning (GCL) methods typically rely on either random perturbations (e.g., edge dropping) for diversity or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hao Deng , Zhang Guo , Shuiping Gou , Bo Liu

As one of the most powerful probes of cosmological structure formation, the abundance of massive galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of modifications to gravity on cosmological scales. In this paper, we present results from N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Simone Ferraro , Fabian Schmidt , Wayne Hu

We study the nonspherical linear perturbations of the discretely self-similar and spherically symmetric solution for a self-gravitating scalar field discovered by Choptuik in the context of marginal gravitational collapse. We find that all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Carsten Gundlach

We consider the self-similar solutions associated with the critical behavior observed in the gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric perfect fluids with equation of state $p=\alpha\mu$. We identify for the first time the global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. J. Carr , A. A. Coley , M. Goliath , U. S. Nilsson , C. Uggla

We study the critical behaviour of spherically symmetric scalar field collapse to black holes in spacetime dimensions other than four. We obtain reliable values for the scaling exponent in the supercritical region for dimensions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Bland , B. Preston , M. Becker , G. Kunstatter , V. Husain

We perform dynamical and nonlinear numerical simulations to study critical phenomena in the gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields in the absence of spherical symmetry. We evolve axisymmetric sets of initial data and examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-18 Thomas W. Baumgarte

We study the critical collapse of a massive complex scalar field coupled minimally to gravity. Taking as initial data a simple gaussian pulse with a shape similar to the harmonic ansatz for boson stars, we obtain critical collapse of type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Erik Jimenez-Vazquez , Miguel Alcubierre

The numerical conformal bootstrap has become in the last 15 years an indispensable tool for studying strongly coupled CFTs in various dimensions. Here we review the main developments in the field in the last 5 years, since the appearance of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Slava Rychkov , Ning Su

In spherical symmetry compelling numerical evidence suggests that in general relativity solutions near the threshold of black hole formation exhibit critical behavior. One aspect of this is that threshold solutions themselves are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Isabel Suárez Fernández , Rodrigo Vicente , David Hilditch

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art…

Self-similar solutions of a collapsing perfect fluid and a massless scalar field with kinematic self-similarity of the first kind in 2+1 dimensions are obtained. Their local and global properties of the solutions are studied. It is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 F. I. M. Pereira , R. Chan

Since Lorenz's seminal work on a simplified weather model, the numerical analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems has become one of the main subjects of research in physics. Despite of that, there remains a need for accessible, efficient,…

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

A straightforward, time-independent model for determining the critical mass of a spherical sample of a fissile nuclide is developed from basic neutron collision theory and elementary probability arguments. This model is suitable for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Cameron Reed

Modern gravitational-wave science demands increasingly accurate and computationally intensive numerical relativity (NR) simulations. The Python-based, open-source NRPy framework generates optimized C/C++ code for NR, including the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Nishita Jadoo , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Zachariah B. Etienne

We investigate the dynamics of self-gravitating, spherically-symmetric distributions of fluid through numerical means. In particular, systems involving neutron star models driven far from equilibrium in the strong-field regime of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott C. Noble

PySDM is an open-source Python package for simulating the dynamics of particles undergoing condensational and collisional growth, interacting with a fluid flow and subject to chemical composition changes. It is intended to serve as a…

A binary liquid near its consolute point exhibits critical fluctuations of the local composition; the diverging correlation length has always challenged simulations. The method of choice for the calculation of critical points in the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-29 Yogyata Pathania , Dipanjan Chakraborty , Felix Höfling

A numerical simulation is performed of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. The algorithm uses the null initial value formulation of the Einstein-scalar equations, but does {\it not} use adaptive mesh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 David Garfinkle