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This article describes lcpy, an open-source python package that allows for advanced parametric Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) analysis. The package is designed to allow the user to model a process with a flexible,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Spiros Gkousis , Evina Katsou

Herein we explore the non-equatorial constant-$r$ ("quasi-circular") geodesics (both timelike and null) in the Painleve-Gullstrand variant of the Lense-Thirring spacetime recently introduced by the current authors. Even though the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Joshua Baines , Thomas Berry , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

We study the geodesic motion in a space-time describing a swirling universe. We show that the geodesic equations can be fully decoupled in the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism leading to an additional constant of motion. The analytical solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-01 Rogério Capobianco , Betti Hartmann , Jutta Kunz

We study elliptic-like geodesic motion on hyperplanes orthogonal to the cylindrical symmetry axes of the Godel spacetime by using an eccentricity-semi-latus rectum parametrization which is familiar from the Newtonian description of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Wolfango Plastino

In this paper, we present resolvent4py, a parallel Python package for the analysis, model reduction and control of large-scale linear systems with millions or billions of degrees of freedom. This package provides the user with a friendly…

We develop a numerical code to compute gravitational waves induced by a particle moving on eccentric inclined orbits around a Kerr black hole. For such systems, the black hole perturbation method is applicable. The gravitational waves can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-05 Ryuichi Fujita , Wataru Hikida , Hideyuki Tagoshi

In general relativity, the motion of an extended body moving in a given spacetime can be described by a particle on a (generally non-geodesic) worldline. In first approximation, this worldline is a geodesic of the underlying spacetime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Paul Ramond

We specify an angular motion on geodesics to reduce the problem to the case of radial motion elaborated in previous chapters. An appropriate value of entropy for a charged and rotating black hole is obtained by calculating the partition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kiselev

We present a relativistic model for the stationary axisymmetric accretion flow of a rotating cloud of non-interacting particles falling onto a Kerr black hole. Based on a ballistic approximation, streamlines are described analytically in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 Emilio Tejeda , Paul A. Taylor , John C. Miller

The R software package excursions contains methods for calculating probabilistic excursion sets, contour credible regions, and simultaneous confidence bands for latent Gaussian stochastic processes and fields. It also contains methods for…

Computation · Statistics 2017-08-15 David Bolin , Finn Lindgren

This paper presents a lightweight, open-source and high-performance python package for solving peridynamics problems in solid mechanics. The development of this solver is motivated by the need for fast analysis tools to achieve the large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-15 B. Boys , T. J. Dodwell , M. Hobbs , M. Girolami

Magpy is a C++ accelerated Python package for modelling and simulating the magnetic dynamics of nano-sized particles. Nanoparticles are modelled as a system of three-dimensional macrospins and simulated with a set of coupled stochastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-25 Oliver Laslett , Jonathon Waters , Hans Fangohr , Ondrej Hovorka

Gaussian processes (GPs) have become a common tool in astronomy for analysing time series data, particularly in exoplanet science and stellar astrophysics. However, choosing the appropriate covariance structure for a GP model remains a…

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The Kepler Mission is a Discovery mission supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and its primary aim is to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. The space telescope was designed with a photometer…

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Assessing predictive models can be challenging. Modelers must navigate a wide array of evaluation methodologies implemented with incompatible interfaces across multiple packages which may give different or even contradictory results, while…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Michael J Mahoney

We present a Python package for ground-state preparation based on the probabilistic imaginary-time evolution algorithm, with particular focus on its state-vector-based implementation. A standard shot-based simulation is also supported, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pascal Sievers , Satoshi Ejima

In this article, we describe and numerically implement a method for relativistic location in slightly curved but otherwise generic spacetimes. For terrestrial positioning in the context of Global Navigation Satellite Systems, our algorithm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Justin C. Feng , Filip Hejda , Sante Carloni

The Pade code has been developed to treat hydrodynamic turbulence in protoplanetary disks. It solves the compressible equations of motion in cylindrical coordinates. Derivatives are computed using non-diffusive and conservative fourth-order…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Karim Shariff

Geodetic time series -- such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positions, satellite altimetry-derived sea surface height (SSH), and tide gauge (TG) records -- is essential for monitoring surface deformation and sea level change.…