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We present a novel approach to generate higher-order initial conditions (ICs) for cosmological simulations that take into account the distinct evolution of baryons and dark matter. We focus on the numerical implementation and the validation…

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It has previously been shown that varying the numerical timestep during a symplectic orbital integration leads to a random walk in energy and angular momentum, destroying the phase space-conserving property of symplectic integrators. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn , Ramon Brasser

In performing cosmological N-body simulations, it is widely appreciated that the growth of structure on the largest scales within a simulation box will be inhibited by the finite size of the simulation volume. Following ideas set forth in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-16 Chris Orban

Calculating the long term solution of ordinary differential equations, such as those of the $N$-body problem, is central to understanding a wide range of dynamics in astrophysics, from galaxy formation to planetary chaos. Because generally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 David M. Hernandez , Edmund Bertschinger

Unconditionally stable time stepping schemes are useful and often practically necessary for advancing parabolic operators in multi-scale systems. However, serious accuracy problems may emerge when taking time steps that far exceed the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ronald M. Caplan , Craig D. Johnston , Lars K. S. Daldoff , Jon A. Linker

Approximations to the exact solutions for gravitational instability in the expanding Universe are extremely useful for understanding the evolution of large--scale structure. We report on a series of tests of Newtonian Lagrangian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Buchert , A. L. Melott , A. G. Weiss

We develop a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) framework to study the clustering of cold dark matter (CDM) in cosmologies with massive neutrinos. We follow the trajectories of CDM particles with Lagrangian displacements fields up to…

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This work deals with the numerical approximation of plasmas which are confined by the effect of a fast oscillating magnetic field (see \cite{Bostan2012}) in the Vlasov model. The presence of this magnetic field induces oscillations (in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Megala Anandan , Benjamin Boutin , Nicolas Crouseilles

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…

Cosmological Perturbation Theory (PT) is a useful tool to study the cumulants of the density and velocity fields in the large scale structure of the Universe. In Papers I & II of this series we saw that the Spherical Collapse (SC) model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga

Perturbation theory of large-scale structures of the Universe at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order provides us with predictions of cosmological statistics at sub-percent level in the mildly non-linear regime. Its use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Ken Osato , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya , Francis Bernardeau

A recently proposed method for computer simulations in the isothermal-isobaric (NPT) ensemble, based on Langevin-type equations of motion for the particle coordinates and the ``piston'' degree of freedom, is re-derived by straightforward…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Kolb , B. Duenweg

A wide range of implicit time integration methods, including multi-step, implicit Runge-Kutta, and Galerkin finite-time element schemes, is evaluated in the context of chaotic dynamical systems. The schemes are applied to solve the Lorenz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Viktoriya Morozova , James G. Coder , Kevin Holst

Explicit symplectic integrators have been important tools for accurate and efficient approximations of mechanical systems with separable Hamiltonians. For the first time, the article proposes for arbitrary Hamiltonians similar integrators,…

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Nonlinear differential equations rarely admit closed-form solutions, thus requiring numerical time-stepping algorithms to approximate solutions. Further, many systems characterized by multiscale physics exhibit dynamics over a vast range of…

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Data generated in perturbation experiments link perturbations to the changes they elicit and therefore contain information relevant to numerous biological discovery tasks -- from understanding the relationships between biological entities…

We present a new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

In this work we present the porting to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs, using OpenMP target directives) and optimization of a key module within the cosmological {\pinocchio} code, a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT)-based framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 M. D. Lepinzan , G. Lacopo , D. Goz , G. Taffoni , P. Monaco , P. J. Elahi , U. Varetto , M. Cytowski

We propose an experimental study of adaptive time-stepping methods for efficient modeling of the aggregation-fragmentation kinetics. Precise modeling of this phenomena usually requires utilization of the large systems of nonlinear ordinary…

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