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We have established the exact expression for the gravitational potential of a homogeneous polar cell - an elementary pattern used in hydrodynamical simulations of gravitating discs. This formula, which is a closed-form, works for any…

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A highly accurate self-consistent particle code to simulate the beam-beam collision in $e^+e^-$ storage rings has been developed. It adopts a method of solving the Poisson equation with an open boundary. The method consists of two steps:…

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A model for the static weak-field macroscopic medium is analyzed and the equation for the macroscopic gravitational potential is derived. This is a biharmonic equation which is a non-trivial generalization of the Poisson equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Montani , Remo Ruffini , Roustam Zalaletdinov

The determination of the gravitational potential by the polyhedral method is revisited in the case where the surface of a body is composed of triangular facets. Based upon six test-shapes of astrophysical interest (sphere, spheroid,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jean-Marc Huré

We discuss the effects of strong gravity on the polarization properties of a black hole accretion disc. The intrinsic polarization is computed taking into account light scattered on the disc surface and using different approximations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , G. Matt

Radiative corrections to an atom are calculated near a half-space that has arbitrarily-shaped small depositions upon its surface. The method is based on calculation of the classical Green's function of the macroscopic Maxwell equations near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Robert Bennett

In 2D simulations of thin gaseous disks with embedded planets or self-gravity the gravitational potential needs to be smoothed to avoid singularities in the numerical evaluation of the gravitational potential or force. In order to correctly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 T. W. A. Müller , W. Kley , F. Meru

The idea of extra spatial dimensions arises from attempts to unify gravity with other fundamental interactions, develop a consistent theory of quantum gravity, and address open problems in particle physics and cosmology. Considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi , Zeynab Ramezanpasandi

The first-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the mid-plane gravitational potential in flat finite size discs in which the surface density is a power-law function of the radius R with exponent s (Hur\'e & Hersant 2007)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -M. Huré , F. Hersant , C. Carreau , J. -P. Busset

A new computational scheme is developed to study gas accretion from a circumbinary disk. The scheme decomposes the gas velocity into two components one of which denotes the Keplerian rotation and the other of which does the deviation from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Yasuhiro Ochi , Koichi Ando

A new computationally efficient method has been introduced to treat self-gravity in mesh based hydrodynamical simulations. It is applied simply by slightly modifying the Poisson equation into an inhomogeneous wave equation. This roughly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ryosuke Hirai , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotada Okawa , Kotaro Fujisawa

We present a simple and effective multigrid-based Poisson solver of second-order accuracy in both gravitational potential and forces in terms of the one, two and infinity norms. The method is especially suitable for numerical simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Chien-Chang Yen

We extend the work of Yen et al. (2012) and develop 2nd order formulae to accommodate a nested grid discretization for the direct self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin gaseous disks. This approach uses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ronald E. Taam , David C. C. Yen

We discuss a practical method to compute the self-force on a particle moving through a curved spacetime. This method involves two expansions to calculate the self-force, one arising from the particle's immediate past and the other from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Alan G. Wiseman

Planet--disc interactions, despite being fundamentally three-dimensional, are often studied in the two-dimensional `thin-disk' approximation. The overall morphology of planet--disc interactions has ben shown to be similar in both 2D and 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Amelia J. Cordwell , Alexandros Ziampras , Joshua J. Brown , Roman R. Rafikov

A new method for determining the accelerating potential above the polar caps of radio pulsars with an arbitrary inclination angle of the magnetic axis to the rotation axis has been proposed. The approach has been based on the concept of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 A. Yu. Istomin , F. A. Kniazev , V. S. Beskin

We present a spectrally accurate, efficient FFT-based method for the three-dimensional free-space Poisson equation with smooth, compactly supported sources. The method adopts a super-potential formulation: we first compute the convolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Lukas Exl , Sebastian Schaffer

In present paper we suggest exact solution of the Poisson problem which appears in frequently addressed applications regarding calculation of the gravitational potential of spiral galaxies. We suggest an analytical solution for the problem…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Anton A. Lipovka , Armando Meza

An expansion of a density field or particle distribution in basis functions which solve the Poisson equation both provides an easily parallelized n-body force algorithm and simplifies perturbation theories. The expansion converges quickly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Martin D. Weinberg

We study accretion rates during the gravitational wave-driven merger of a binary supermassive black hole embedded in an accretion disc, formed by gas driven to the centre of the galaxy. We use 3D simulations performed with PHANTOM, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Alice Cerioli , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price