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We present an algorithm named "Chamomile Scheme". The scheme is fully optimized for calculating gravitational interactions on the latest programmable Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), NVIDIA GeForce8800GTX, which has (a) small but fast shared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsuyoshi Hamada , Toshiaki Iitaka

We develop a framework for modelling the Milky Way using stellar streams and a wide range of photometric and kinematic observations. Through the use of mock data we demonstrate that a standard suite of Galactic observations leads to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Nathan Deg , Lawrence Widrow

Understanding shock-solid interactions remains a central challenge in compressiblefluiddynamics. WepresentJAX-Shock: afully-differentiable,GPU-accelerated, high-order shock-capturing solver for efficient simulation of the compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Bo Zhang

Scientific computing in the exascale era demands increased computational power to solve complex problems across various domains. With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures the need for vendor-agnostic, performance portability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Johansell Villalobos , Josef Ruzicka , Silvio Rizzi

Large n-body simulations with fully interacting objects represent the next frontier in computational planetary formation studies. In this paper, we present Mercury-Opal, the GPU-accelerated version of the n-body planet formation code…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Paolo Simonetti , Diego Turrini , Romolo Politi , Scigé J. Liu , Sergio Fonte , Danae Polychroni , Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

We describe an algorithm for constructing N-body realisations of equilibrium stellar systems. The algorithm complements existing orbit-based modelling techniques using linear programming or other optimization algorithms. The equilibria are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Syer , S. Tremaine

We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

We introduce GYRE, a new open-source stellar oscillation code which solves the adiabatic/non-adiabatic pulsation equations using a novel Magnus Multiple Shooting (MMS) numerical scheme. The code has a global error scaling of up to 6th order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rich Townsend , Seth Teitler , Bill Paxton

A revision of Stodolkiewicz's Monte-Carlo code is used to simulate evolution of star clusters. The new method treats each superstar as a single star and follows the evolution and motion of all individual stellar objects. The first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mirek Giersz

We describe the astrophysical and numerical basis of N-body simulations, both of collisional stellar systems (dense star clusters and galactic centres) and collisionless stellar dynamics (galaxies and large-scale structure). We explain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-26 Walter Dehnen , Justin Read

Computational efficiency demands discretised, hierarchically organised, and individually adaptive time-step sizes (known as the block-step scheme) for the time integration of N-body models. However, most existing N-body codes adapt…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Walter Dehnen

In most current debris disc models, the dynamical and the collisional evolutions are studied separately, with N-body and statistical codes, respectively, because of stringent computational constraints. We present here LIDT-DD, the first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quentin Kral , Philippe Thébault , Sébastien Charnoz

One of the most promising tracers of the Galactic potential in the halo region are stellar streams. However, individual stream fits can be limited by systematic biases. To study these individual stream systematics, we fit streams in Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Stella Reino , Robyn E. Sanderson , Nondh Panithanpaisal , Elena M. Rossi , Konrad Kuijken

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

We study the dynamical response of extended systems, hosts, to smaller systems, satellites, orbiting around the hosts using extremely high-resolution N-body simulations with up to one billion particles. This situation corresponds to minor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Go Ogiya , Andreas Burkert

We describe a major upgrade of a Monte Carlo code which has previously been used for many studies of dense star clusters. We outline the steps needed in order to calibrate the results of the new Monte Carlo code against $N$-body simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Mirek Giersz , Douglas C. Heggie , Jarrod Hurley , Arkadiusz Hypki

This paper presents the main characteristics of the evolutionary optimization code named EOS, Evolutionary Optimization at Sapienza, and its successful application to challenging, real-world space trajectory optimization problems. EOS is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lorenzo Federici , Boris Benedikter , Alessandro Zavoli

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

This project aims to advance differentiable fluid dynamics for hypersonic coupled flow over porous media, demonstrating the potential of automatic differentiation (AD)-based optimization for end-to-end solutions. Leveraging AD efficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Wenkang Wang , Xuanwei Zhang , Deniz Bezgin , Aaron Buhendwa , Xu Chu , Bernhard Weigand
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