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We present the BACCO project, a simulation framework specially designed to provide highly-accurate predictions for the distribution of mass, galaxies, and gas as a function of cosmological parameters. In this paper, we describe our main…

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Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , David Higdon , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , Brian Williams

Cosmology places the strongest current limits on the sum of neutrino masses. Future observations will further improve the sensitivity and this will require accurate cosmological simulations to quantify possible systematic uncertainties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Baojiu Li , Silvia Pascoli

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

Structure identification in cosmological simulations plays an important role in analysing simulation outputs. The definition of these structures directly impacts the inferred properties derived from these simulations. This paper proposes a…

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The accurate, reliable and efficient numerical approximation of multi-physics processes in heterogeneous porous media with varying media coefficients that include fluid flow and structure interactions is of fundamental importance in energy,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Uwe Köcher

Evaluating modern machine learning models has become prohibitively expensive. Benchmarks such as LMMs-Eval and HELM demand thousands of GPU hours per model. Costly evaluation reduces inclusivity, slows the cycle of innovation, and worsens…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

Homogenisation empowers the efficient macroscale system level prediction of physical scenarios with intricate microscale structures. Here we develop an innovative powerful, rigorous and flexible framework for asymptotic homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-08 A. J. Roberts

To fully take advantage of the data provided by large-scale structure surveys, we need to quantify the potential impact of baryonic effects, such as feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation, on cosmological observables.…

Modern cosmological inference increasingly relies on differentiable models to enable efficient, gradient-based parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. Here, we present a novel approach for predicting the abundance of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jim Buisman , Florian List , Oliver Hahn

In this contribution a broad overview of the methodologies of cosmological N-body simulations and a short introduction explaining the general idea behind such simulations is presented. After explaining how to set up the initial conditions…

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Constraining neutrino mass through cosmological observations relies on precise simulations to calibrate their effects on large scale structure, while these simulations must overcome computational challenges like dealing with large velocity…

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We introduce a closed-form method for identification of discrete-time linear time-variant systems from data, formulating the learning problem as a regularized least squares problem where the regularizer favors smooth solutions within a…

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Simulation of the dynamics of dust-gas circumstellar discs is crucial in understanding the mechanisms of planet formation. The dynamics of small grains in the disc is stiffly coupled to the gas, while the dynamics of grown solids is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Tatiana A. Glushko , Nikolay V. Snytnikov , Valeriy N. Snytnikov

In these lecture notes, we describe the current state-of-the-art for numerical simulations of large-scale structure and galaxy formation. Numerical simulations play a central role in the preparation and the exploitation of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Romain Teyssier

Since the first observations of interstellar molecules, astrochemical simulations have been employed to model and understand its formation and destruction path- ways. With the advent of high-resolution telescopes such as JWST and ALMA, the…

Computational astrochemical models are essential for helping us interpret and understand the observations of different astrophysical environments. In the age of high-resolution telescopes such as JWST and ALMA, the substructure of many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Gijs Vermariën , Thomas G. Bisbas , Serena Viti , Yue Zhao , Xuefei Tang , Rahul Ravichandran

As wide-field surveys yield ever more precise measurements, cosmology has entered a phase of high precision requiring highly accurate and fast theoretical predictions. At the heart of most cosmological model predictions is a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexandre Refregier , Lukas Gamper , Adam Amara , Lavinia Heisenberg