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Modeling interacting galaxies to reproduce observed systems is still a challenge due to the extended parameter space (among other problems). Orbit and basic galaxy parameters can be tackled by fast simulation techniques like the restricted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hanns P. Petsch , Christian Theis

We present the extension of the differentiable hydrodynamics code, diffhydro, enabling scalable PDE-constrained inference and integrated hybrid physics-ML models for a wide range of astrophysical applications. New physics additions include…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku

Direct gravitational simulations of n-body systems have a time complexity O(n^2), which gets computationally expensive as the number of bodies increases. Distributing this workload to multiple cores significantly speeds up the computation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 Dhananjay Saikumar

Developers of Molecular Dynamics (MD) codes face significant challenges when adapting existing simulation packages to new hardware. In a continuously diversifying hardware landscape it becomes increasingly difficult for scientists to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-14 William R. Saunders , James Grant , Eike H. Müller

Accurate direct $N$-body simulations help to obtain detailed information about the dynamical evolution of star clusters. They also enable comparisons with analytical models and Fokker-Planck or Monte-Carlo methods. NBODY6 is a well-known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Long Wang , Rainer Spurzem , Sverre Aarseth , Keigo Nitadori , Peter Berczik , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Thorsten Naab

We introduce a GPU-accelerated hybrid hydro/N-body code (Enzo-N) designed to address the challenges of concurrently simulating star clusters and their parent galaxies. This task has been exceedingly challenging, primarily due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 Yongseok Jo , Seoyoung Kim , Ji-hoon Kim , Greg L. Bryan

Stellar streams provide one of the most promising avenues for constraining the global mass distribution of the Milky Way and the nature of dark matter (DM). The stream stars' kinematic "track" enables inference of large-scale properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Kiyan Tavangar , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

Direct-summation N-body algorithms compute the gravitational interaction between stars in an exact way and have a computational complexity of O(N^2). Performance can be greatly enhanced via the use of special-purpose accelerator boards like…

We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junfeng Wang , Chunlei Liang , Mark S. Miesch

We present a high-performance N-body code for self-gravitating collisional systems accelerated with the aid of a new SIMD instruction set extension of the x86 architecture: Advanced Vector eXtensions (AVX), an enhanced version of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Keigo Nitadori

An N-body code containing live stellar evolution through combination of the software packages NBODY6 and STARS is presented. Operational details of the two codes are outlined and the changes that have been made to combine them discussed. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ross P. Church , Christopher A. Tout , Jarrod R. Hurley

Simulating thin and extended galactic disks has long been a challenge in computational astrophysics. We introduce the NIHAO-UHD suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way mass galaxies and study stellar disk properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Tobias Buck , Aura Obreja , Andrea V. Macciò , Ivan Minchev , Aaron A. Dutton , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-06-22 Erich Elsen , V. Vishal , Mike Houston , Vijay Pande , Pat Hanrahan , Eric Darve

We propose a differentiable optimization framework for flip-and-landing trajectory design of reusable spacecraft, exemplified by the Starship vehicle. A deep neural network surrogate, trained on high-fidelity CFD data, predicts aerodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liwei Chen , Tong Qin , Zhenhua Huangfu , Li Li , Wei Wei

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

Chemical kinetics mechanisms are essential for understanding, analyzing, and simulating complex combustion phenomena. In this study, a Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) framework is employed to optimize kinetics parameters…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Xingyu Su , Weiqi Ji , Jian An , Zhuyin Ren , Sili Deng , Chung K. Law

The growth of data to be processed in the Oil & Gas industry matches the requirements imposed by evolving algorithms based on stencil computations, such as Full Waveform Inversion and Reverse Time Migration. Graphical processing units…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Vitor Hugo Mickus Rodrigues , Lucas Cavalcante , Maelso Bruno Pereira , Fabio Luporini , István Reguly , Gerard Gorman , Samuel Xavier de Souza

Stellar streams result from the tidal disruption of satellites and star clusters as they orbit a host galaxy, and can be very sensitive probes of the gravitational potential of the host system. We select and study narrow stellar streams…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Robyn E. Sanderson , Johanna Hartke , Amina Helmi

N-body simulations are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. However, the discrete nature of these simulations affects their accuracy when modelling collisionless systems. We introduce a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo