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We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

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This article is concerned with a new filtered two-step variational integrator for solving the charged-particle dynamics in a mildly non-uniform moderate or strong magnetic field with a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon$ inversely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Ting Li , Bin Wang

An approximate analytical solution for the two body problem perturbed by a radial, low acceleration is obtained, using a regularized formulation of the orbital motion and the method of multiple scales. Formulating the dynamics with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-19 Juan Luis Gonzalo , Claudio Bombardelli

This technical report provides an in-depth evaluation of both established and state-of-the-art methods for simulating constrained rigid multi-body systems with hard-contact dynamics, using formulations of Nonlinear Complementarity Problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Vassilios Tsounis , Ruben Grandia , Moritz Bächer

Direct N-body simulations and symplectic integrators are effective tools to study the long-term evolution of planetary systems. The Wisdom-Holman (WH) integrator in particular has been used extensively in planetary dynamics as it allows for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo , Garett Brown

We propose score dynamics (SD), a general framework for learning accelerated evolution operators with large timesteps from molecular-dynamics simulations. SD is centered around scores, or derivatives of the transition log-probability with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Tim Hsu , Babak Sadigh , Vasily Bulatov , Fei Zhou

Adaptive second-order Crank-Nicolson time-stepping methods using the recent scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach are developed for the time-fractional Molecular Beam Epitaxial models with Caputo's derivative. Based on the piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Bingquan Ji , Hong-lin Liao , Yuezheng Gong , Luming Zhang

Much of standard galaxy dynamics rests on the implicit assumption that the corresponding N-body problem is (near) integrable. This notion although leading to great simplification is by no means a fact. It is therefore important to develop…

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This work proposes an adaptive framework to solve a robust structural shape optimization problem governed by linear elasticity models that account for uncertainties in the loading and material inputs. A posteriori error estimators are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Oğuz Han Altıntaş , Hamdullah Yücel

Large time-stepping is important for efficient long-time simulations of deterministic and stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Conventional structure-preserving integrators, while being successful for generic systems, have limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Xingjie Li , Fei Lu , Molei Tao , Felix Ye

The robustness of dynamical systems against external perturbations is crucial in engineering; however, it is often overlooked for the lack of methods for rapidly computing it. This paper proposes a novel algorithm for estimating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Bence Szaksz , Gabor Stepan , Giuseppe Habib

By combining a standard symmetric, symplectic integrator with a new step size controller, we provide an integration scheme that is symmetric, reversible and conserves the values of the constants of motion. This new scheme is appropriate for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-07 Jonathan Seyrich , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

This letter presents a method to reduce the computational demands of including second-order dynamics sensitivity information into the Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) trajectory optimization algorithm. An approach to DDP is developed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 John N. Nganga , Patrick M. Wensing

We propose an extension of the anisotropic interaction model which allows for collision avoidance in pairwise interactions by a rotation of forces \cite{arXiv:1912.04234} by including the agents' body size. The influence of the body size on…

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We address the generation of initial conditions (ICs) for GRAMSES, a code for nonlinear general relativistic (GR) $N$-body cosmological simulations recently introduced in Ref. [1]. GRAMSES adopts a constant mean curvature slicing with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li

We present a new adaptive resolution technique for efficient particle-based multiscale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The presented approach is tailor-made for molecular systems where atomistic resolution is required only in spatially…

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This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon , Stéphane Descombes , Thierry Dumont

We consider systems of ordinary differential equations with multiple scales in time. In general, we are interested in the long time horizon of a slow variable that is coupled to solution components that act on a fast scale. Although the…

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Two new methods are presented for estimating car-following model parameters using data collected from the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) enabled vehicles. The vehicle is assumed to follow a constant time headway relative velocity model in…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-16 Yanbing Wang , George Gunter , Matthew Nice , Daniel B. Work

NIMASTEP is a dedicated numerical software developed by us, which allows one to integrate the osculating motion (using cartesian coordinates) in a Newtonian approach of an object considered as a point-mass orbiting a homogeneous central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 N. Delsate , A. Compère