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The objective of this study is to develop a fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic solver for fast simulations of the global dynamo of the Sun using unstructured grids and GPUs. Accurate modeling of the Sun's convective layers is vital to…

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A revision of Stod\{'o}{\l}kiewicz's Monte Carlo code is used to simulate evolution of large star clusters. A survey of the evolution of N-body systems influenced by the tidal field of a parent galaxy and by stellar evolution is presented.…

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Stellar tidal streams are sensitive tracers of the properties of the gravitational potential in which they orbit and detailed observations of their density structure can be used to place stringent constraints on fluctuations in the…

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In this paper, we present a mathematical analysis of time-dependent $N$-body electronic systems and establish mixed regularity for the corresponding wavefunctions. Based on this, we develop sparse grid approximations to reduce computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Long Meng , Dexuan Zhou

In this work, a new version of KNOSOS is presented. KNOSOS is a low-collisionality radially-local, bounce-averaged neoclassical code that is extremely fast, and at the same time, includes physical effects often neglected by more standard…

We describe a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. High order finite difference WENO schemes are designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

Efficiently and accurately simulating partial differential equations (PDEs) in and around arbitrarily defined geometries, especially with high levels of adaptivity, has significant implications for different application domains. A key…

Dynamic Voltage Scaling techniques allow the processor to set its speed dynamically in order to reduce energy consumption. In the continuous model, the processor can run at any speed, while in the discrete model, the processor can only run…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Minming Li , Frances F. Yao , Hao Yuan

Mixed-variable symplectic integrators are widely used in orbital dynamics. However, they have been developed for Solar system-type architectures, and can not handle evolving hierarchy, in particular in systems with two or more stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 L. Rodet , H. Beust , M. Bonnefoy , R. J. De Rosa , P. Kalas , A. -M. Lagrange

Motivated by the closest major merger, the Antennae Galaxies (NGC4038/4039), we want to improve our genetic algorithm based modeling code Minga (Theis 1999). The aim is to reveal the major interaction and galaxy parameters, e.g. orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Hanns P. Petsch , Christian Theis

We present the first results of applying Gaussian Mixture Models in the stellar kinematic space of normalized angular momentum and binding energy on NIHAO high resolution galaxies to separate the stars into multiple components. We exemplify…

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Deformable image registration (DIR) is crucial in medical image analysis, enabling the exploration of biological dynamics such as organ motions and longitudinal changes in imaging. Leveraging Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yifan Wu , Mengjin Dong , Rohit Jena , Chen Qin , James C. Gee

We present a novel $N$-body simulation method that compactifies the infinite spatial extent of the Universe into a finite sphere with isotropic boundary conditions to follow the evolution of the large-scale structure. Our approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , István Csabai , László Dobos

We demonstrate a high-performance vendor-agnostic method for massively parallel solving of ensembles of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on GPUs. The method is integrated with a widely used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Utkarsh Utkarsh , Valentin Churavy , Yingbo Ma , Tim Besard , Prakitr Srisuma , Tim Gymnich , Adam R. Gerlach , Alan Edelman , George Barbastathis , Richard D. Braatz , Christopher Rackauckas

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

The gas dynamics in the Galactic disc is modeled by releasing an initially axisymmetric SPH component in a completely self-consistent and symmetry-free 3D N-body simulation of the Milky Way in which the stellar components display a…

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We present the first high-resolution zoom-in simulation of a Milky-way-like halo extracted from the Aquarius Project in the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) framework. We use the N-body code AX-GADGET, based on a particle oriented solution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi

(Abridged) Dynamical friction can be used to distinguish Newtonian gravity and modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) because it works differently in these frameworks. This concept, however, has yet to be explored very much with MOND. Previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Michal Bílek , Hongsheng Zhao , Benoit Famaey , Oliver Müller , Pavel Kroupa , Rodrigo Ibata

We describe the public release of the Cluster Monte Carlo Code (CMC) a parallel, star-by-star $N$-body code for modeling dense star clusters. CMC treats collisional stellar dynamics using H\'enon's method, where the cumulative effect of…

Understanding dynamic 3D environments is essential for safe autonomous driving, particularly when reasoning about human-centric, nonrigid agents. However, existing weakly supervised occupancy prediction frameworks predominantly assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yang Gao , Wuyang Li , Po-Chien Luan , Alexandre Alahi