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The gravitational $N$-body problem, which is fundamentally important in astrophysics to predict the motion of $N$ celestial bodies under the mutual gravity of each other, is usually solved numerically because there is no known general…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Maxwell X. Cai , Simon Portegies Zwart , Damian Podareanu

We train a neural network model to predict the full phase space evolution of cosmological N-body simulations. Its success implies that the neural network model is accurately approximating the Green's function expansion that relates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Siyu He , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Renan Alves de Oliveira , David N. Spergel

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

We present a new hybrid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)/N-body method for modelling the collisional stellar dynamics of young clusters in a live gas background. By deriving the equations of motion from Lagrangian mechanics we obtain a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. A. Hubber , R. J. Allison , R. Smith , S. P. Goodwin

Cosmological N-body simulations are crucial for understanding how the Universe evolves. Studying large-scale distributions of matter in these simulations and comparing them to observations usually involves detecting dense clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 Aidan Reilly , Nikita Ivkin , Gerard Lemson , Vladimir Braverman , Alexander Szalay

The rapidly increasing statistical power of cosmological imaging surveys requires us to reassess the regime of validity for various approximations that accelerate the calculation of relevant theoretical predictions. In this paper, we…

The paper presents an improved mass balancing procedure for fast rotating machinery, while it is being rotated at speeds considerably slower than the "critical speeds", where dangerously high vibration amplitudes may arise. By utilizing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Amit Dolev , Shachar Tresser , Izhak Bucher

We provide a definition and explicit expressions for $n$-body Gaussian Process (GP) kernels which can learn any interatomic interaction occurring in a physical system, up to $n$-body contributions, for any value of $n$. The series is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Aldo Glielmo , Claudio Zeni , Alessandro De Vita

We provide the first direct lifting of the mass/anisotropy degeneracy for a cluster of galaxies, by jointly fitting the line of sight velocity dispersion and kurtosis profiles of the Coma cluster, assuming an NFW tracer density profile, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary A. Mamon , Ewa L. Lokas , Teresa Sanchis

We developed a Keplerian-based Hamiltonian splitting for solving the gravitational $N$-body problem. This splitting allows us to approximate the solution of a general $N$-body problem by a composition of multiple, independently evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Gonçalves Ferrari , T. Boekholt , S. F. Portegies Zwart

We introduce a scheme to include many-body screening processes explicitly into a set of self-consistent equations for electronic structure calculations using the Gutzwiller approximation. The method is illustrated by the application to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-15 Y. X. Yao , C. Z. Wang , K. M. Ho

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

We present a simple and efficient method to set up spherical structure models for N-body simulations with a multimass technique. This technique reduces by a substantial factor the computer run time needed in order to resolve a given scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Marcel Zemp , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , C. Marcella Carollo , Piero Madau

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations are excellent tools for modelling the formation and clustering of dark matter haloes. These simulations suggest complex physical theories of halo formation governed by a set of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Androniki Dimitriou , Christoph Weniger , Camila A. Correa

Uncertainties in predicting the nonlinear clustering of matter are among the most serious theoretical systematics facing the upcoming wide-field weak gravitational lensing surveys. We estimate the accuracy with which the matter power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Dragan Huterer , Masahiro Takada

We have investigated structure formation in the $\gamma$ gravity $f(R)$ model with {\it N}-body simulations. The $\gamma$ gravity model is a proposal which, unlike other viable $f(R)$ models, not only changes the gravitational dynamics, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Hans A. Winther , David F. Mota , Ioav Waga

Astrophysical Challenges which demand the solution of the one million (or more) gravitating body problem are briefly discussed for the fields of cosmology, galactic nuclei and globular star clusters. Results from the classical three-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Spurzem , A. Kugel

Many exoplanetary systems are multiplanet configurations whose long-term dynamics are governed by N-body gravitational interactions. Consequently, their detection signatures cannot be adequately described by Keplerian orbits. Accurately…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Hong-Fei Jia , Sheng Jin , Dong-Hong Wu , Shang-Fei Liu

We present a novel hierarchical formulation of the fourth-order forward symplectic integrator and its numerical implementation in the GPU-accelerated direct-summation N-body code FROST. The new integrator is especially suitable for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab , Volker Springel

We quantitatively compare a particle implementation of the adhesion approximation to fully non--linear, numerical nbody simulations. Our primary tool, cross--correlation of nbody simulations with the adhesion approximation, indicates good…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. L. Melott , S. F. Shandarin , D. H. Weinberg
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