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The partial spatial separation of cold dark matter (DM) and gas is a ubiquitous feature in the formation of cosmic large-scale structure. This separation, termed dissociation, is prominent in galaxy clusters that formed through collisions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 William McDonald , Danail Obreschkow , Lilian Garratt-Smithson

Cosmological N-Body simulations are used for a variety of applications. Indeed progress in the study of large scale structures and galaxy formation would have been very limited without this tool. For nearly twenty years the limitations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 J. S. Bagla , Nishikanta Khandai

We demonstrate the capabilities of probabilistic diffusion models to reduce dramatically the computational cost of expensive hydrodynamical simulations to study the relationship between observable baryonic cosmological probes and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Satvik Mishra , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel

We present a new time-stepping criterion for N-body simulations that is based on the true dynamical time of a particle. This allows us to follow the orbits of particles correctly in all environments since it has better adaptivity than…

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

After two decades of direct dynamical simulation of large-scale structure in the universe, it is safe to say the subject is now mature. Still, there are parts of the problem that are less well developed than others. In general, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 August E. Evrard

The implementation of a new particle module describing the physics of dust grains coupled to the gas via drag forces is the subject of this work. The proposed particle-gas hybrid scheme has been designed to work in Cartesian as well as in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Mignone , M. Flock , B. Vaidya

This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is the gold standard for non-equilibrium rarefied gas dynamics, yet its computational cost can be prohibitive, especially for near-continuum regimes and high-fidelity \emph{ab initio}…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Ehsan Roohi , Ahmad Shoja-Sani , Stefan Stefanov

Accurate cosmological simulations that include the effect of non-linear matter clustering as well as of massive neutrinos are essential for measuring the neutrino mass scale from upcoming galaxy surveys. Typically, Newtonian simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Christian Partmann , Christian Fidler , Cornelius Rampf , Oliver Hahn

Here we present a simple, parameter-free, non-perturbative algorithm that gives low-redshift cosmological particle realizations accurate to few-Megaparsec scales, called MUSCLE (MUltiscale Spherical ColLapse Evolution). It has virtually the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mark C. Neyrinck

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P3M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tom MacFarland , H. M. P. Couchman , F. R. Pearce , Jakob Pichlmeier

Traditional cosmological hydrodynamical simulations usually assume equal-numbered but unequal-mass dark matter and baryonic particles, which can lead to spurious collisional heating due to energy equipartition. To avoid such a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Shihong Liao , Yizhou Liu , Haonan Zheng , Ming Li , Jie Wang , Liang Gao , Bingqing Sun , Shi Shao

We introduce a new self-consistent structure finding algorithm that parses large scale cosmological structure into clusters, filaments and voids. This structure finding algorithm probes the cosmological structure at multiple scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ali Snedden , Lara Arielle Phillips , Grant J. Mathews , Jared Coughlin , In-Saeng Suh , Aparna Bhattacharya

Precision measurements of the large scale structure of the Universe require large numbers of high fidelity mock catalogs to accurately assess, and account for, the presence of systematic effects. We introduce and test a scheme for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Tomomi Sunayama , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Esteban Rangel

We present the Differentiable Lensing Lightcone (DLL), a fully differentiable physical model designed for being used as a forward model in Bayesian inference algorithms requiring access to derivatives of lensing observables with respect to…

This master thesis introduces the idea of dynamic cutoffs in molecular dynamics simulations, based on the distance between particles and the interface, and presents a solution for detecting interfaces in real-time. Our dynamic cutoff method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Paul Springer

Evolution is an extraordinary engine for enzymatic diversity, yet the chemistry it has explored remains a narrow slice of what DNA can encode. Deep generative models can design new proteins that bind ligands, but none have created enzymes…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are powerful tools for elucidating the macroscopic physical properties of materials from microscopic atomic behaviors. However, the massive, high-dimensional datasets generated by MD simulations pose a…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-19 Yusuke Ono , Takumi Sato , Kenji Yasuoka , Linyu Peng

We introduce \textsc{Odisseo} (Optimized Differentiable Integrator for Stellar Systems Evolution of Orbits), a differentiable N-body code designed to constrain the gravitational potential of the Milky Way (MW) through dynamical modeling of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Giuseppe Viterbo , Tobias Buck