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(Abridged) We investigate and quantify the impact of finite simulation volume on weak lensing two- and four-point statistics. These {\it finite support} (FS) effects are modelled for several estimators, simulation box sizes and source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ludovic van Waerbeke

Accurate gravity field calculations are necessary for landing on planets, moons, asteroids, minimoons, or other irregularly shaped bodies, but current methods become increasingly inaccurate and slow near the surface. We present high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Thomas MacLean , Alan H. Barr

Large-scale magnetic fields are relevant for a number of dynamical processes in accretion disks, including driving turbulence, reconnection events, and launching outflows. Numerical simulations have indicated that the initial strengths and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Hongzhe Zhou , Yosuke Mizuno , Zhenyu Zhu

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

We advocate a low-cost strategy for long-duration research into the 'milligravity' environment of asteroids, comets and small moons, where surface gravity is a vector field typically less than 1/1000 the gravity of Earth. Unlike the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-25 Erik Asphaug , Jekan Thangavelautham , Andrew Klesh , Aman Chandra , Ravi Nallapu , Laksh Raura , Mercedes Herreras-Martinez , Stephen Schwartz

A problem of magnetosphere formation on ion inertia scale around weakly magnetized bodies is investigated by means of laboratory experiment, analytical analysis and 2.5D Hall MHD simulation. Experimental evidence of specific magnetic field…

Superconducting qubits equipped with quantum non-demolition readout and active feedback can be used as information engines to probe and manipulate microscopic degrees of freedom, whether intentionally designed or naturally occurring in…

Micro-vibration has been a dominant factor impairing the performance of scientific experiments which are expected to be deployed in a micro-gravity environment such as Spacelab. The micro-vibration has a serious impact on scientific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Zhaopei Gong , Liang Ding , Honghao Yue , Haibo Gao , Rongqiang Liu , Zongquan Deng , Yifan Lu

We have carried out 1.25 pc resolution MHD simulations of the ISM, on a Cartesian grid of $0 \leq (x,y) \leq 1$ kpc size in the galactic plane and $-10 \leq z \leq 10$ kpc into the halo, thus being able to fully trace the time-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

The exact quantum dynamics of lattice models can be computationally intensive, especially when aiming for large system sizes and extended simulation times necessary to converge transport coefficients. By leveraging finite memory times to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

We investigate small-scale dynamo action in the solar convection zone through a series of high resolution MHD simulations in a local Cartesian domain with 1$R_\odot$ (solar radius) of horizontal extent and a radial extent from 0.715 to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

The dynamical behavior of the magnetism of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) has been investigated by means of atomistic spin dynamics simulations. The conclusions drawn from the study are argued to be general for DMS systems in the low…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-04 J. Hellsvik , B. Skubic , L. Nordström , B. Sanyal , O. Eriksson , P. Nordblad , P. Svedlindh

We propose a method for multi-scale hybrid simulations of molecular dynamics (MD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In the method, usual lattice-mesh based simulations are applied for CFD level, but each lattice is associated with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-20 Shugo Yasuda , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in protostellar collapse and disk formation, yet direct measurements of magnetic field strength in deeply embedded protostellar envelopes remain difficult. We present a new method to estimate both the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yisheng Tu , Xiaoyuan Yang , Zhi-Yun Li

Through the utilization of smart materials and well-designed structures, functional surfaces have been developed to enable small-scale liquid/solid manipulation tasks, thereby facilitating crucial applications in the fields of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Jiaqi Miao

The goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

The planet Mercury possesses a small but highly dynamic magnetosphere in which the role and dynamics of electrons are still largely unknown. We aim at modeling the global dynamics of solar wind electrons impinging on Mercury's…

New high-resolution observations reveal that small-scale magnetic flux concentrations have a delicate substructure on a spatial scale of 0.1''. Its basic structure can be interpreted in terms of a magnetic flux sheet or tube that vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Steiner

In the standard cosmological picture the Universe underwent a brief period of near-exponential expansion, known as Inflation. This provides an explanation for structure formation through the amplification of perturbations by the rapid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Zack Fifer , Theo Torres , Sebastian Erne , Anastasios Avgoustidis , Richard J. A. Hill , Silke Weinfurtner

Miniature magnetic tools have the potential to enable minimally invasive surgical techniques to be applied to space-restricted surgical procedures in areas such as neurosurgery. However, typical magnetic navigation systems, which create the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Adam Schonewille , Changyan He , Cameron Forbrigger , Nancy Wu , James Drake , Thomas Looi , Eric Diller