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Galaxy observations and N-body cosmological simulations produce conflicting dark matter halo density profiles for galaxy central regions. While simulations suggest a cuspy and universal density profile (UDP) of this region, the majority of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 A. N. Baushev , L. del Valle , L. E. Campusano , A. Escala , R. R. Muñoz , G. A. Palma

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P^3M) simulation code for the T3E well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tom MacFarland , Jakob Pichlmeier , Frazer Pearce , Hugh Couchman

We carry out simulations of gravitationally unstable discs using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code and a grid-based hydrodynamics code, FARGO, to understand the previous non-convergent results reported by Meru & Bate (2011a). We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Farzana Meru , Matthew R. Bate

We present an update to the multiphase SPH galaxy formation code by Scannapieco et al. We include a more elaborate treatment of the production of metals, cooling rates based on individual element abundances, and a scheme for the turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-17 Michael Aumer , Simon White , Thorsten Naab , Cecilia Scannapieco

We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological $N$-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus $N$-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip A. Pinto

We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junfeng Wang , Chunlei Liang , Mark S. Miesch

We present DFT-FE 1.0, building on DFT-FE 0.6 [Comput. Phys. Commun. 246, 106853 (2020)], to conduct fast and accurate large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations (reaching ~ $100,000$ electrons) on both many-core CPU and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri , Vishal Subramanian , David M. Rogers , Vikram Gavini

Mock halo catalogues are indispensable data products for developing and validating cosmological inference pipelines. A major challenge in generating mock catalogues is modelling the halo or galaxy bias, which is the mapping from matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Simon Ding , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

Fast N-body PM simulations with a small number of time steps such as FastPM or COLA have been remarkably successful in modeling the galaxy statistics, but their lack of small scale force resolution and long time steps cannot give accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

We perform N-Body/SPH simulations of disk galaxy formation inside equilibrium spherical and triaxial cuspy dark matter halos. We systematically study the disk properties and morphology as we increase the numbers of dark matter and gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , James Wadsley

SC-Flip (SCF) decoding algorithm shares the attention with the common polar code decoding approaches due to its low-complexity and improved error-correction performance. However, the inefficient criterion for locating the correct…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Furkan Ercan , Warren J. Gross

We have performed fully self-consistent $N$-body simulations of star clusters near the Galactic center (GC). Such simulations have not been performed because it is difficult to perform fast and accurate simulations of such systems using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Fujii , M. Iwasawa , Y. Funato , J. Makino

We describe a new Python-based stand-alone halo finding algorithm, Haskap Pie, that combines several methods of halo finding and tracking into a single calculation. Our halo-finder flexibly solves halos for simulations produced by eight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Kirk S. S. Barrow , Thinh Huu Nguyen , Edward C. Skrabacz

Cosmological N-body simulations are among the primary tools for studying structure formation in the Universe. Analyses of these simulations critically depend on accurately identifying and tracking dark matter subhalos over time. In recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Demao Kong , Hai-Bo Yu , Ethan O. Nadler , Philip Mansfield , Andrew Benson

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

Dark matter (DM) halos can be subject to gravothermal collapse if the DM is not collisionless, but engaged in strong self-interactions. When the scattering can efficiently transfer heat from the centre to the outskirts, the central region…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Moritz S. Fischer , Klaus Dolag , Hai-Bo Yu

This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 J. A. Sellwood

In a previous paper we introduced a new method for simulating collisional gravitational $N$-body systems with linear time scaling on $N$, based on the Multi-Particle Collision (MPC) approach. This allows us to simulate globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-04 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Alicia Simon-Petit , Suk-Jin Yoon

The quantum mechanical ground state of electrons is described by Density Functional Theory, which leads to large minimization problems. An efficient minimization method uses a selfconsistent field (SCF) solution of large eigenvalue…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Claus Bendtsen , Ole H. Nielsen , Lars B. Hansen

The performance and accuracy of a GRAPE-3 system for collisionless N-body simulations is discussed. After a description of the hardware configurations available to us at Marseille, and the usefulness of on-line analysis, we concentrate on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Athanassoula , A. Bosma , J. -C. Lambert , J. Makino