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Simulating physical problems involving multi-time scale coupling is challenging due to the need of solving these multi-time scale processes simultaneously. In response to this challenge, this paper proposed an explicit multi-time step…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Xiaojing Tang , Dong Wu , Zhengtong Wang , Oskar Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

Molecular simulation technologies have afforded researchers a unique look into the nanoscale interactions driving physical processes. However, a limitation for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is that they must be performed on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Martin Kulke , Josh V Vermaas

Simulations of the operation of fields of borehole heat exchangers involve a wide spectrum of time scales, and hourly simulations for decades are required for the evaluation of the heat transfer in the subsurface due to these systems. Most…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Alberto Lazzarotto , Marc Basquens , Massimo Cimmino

Numerical N-body simulations are commonly used to explore stability regions around exoplanets, offering insights into the possible existence of satellites and ring systems. This study aims to utilize Machine Learning (ML) techniques to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro , Rafael Sfair , Giovana Ramon

We study the problem of a run and tumble particle in a harmonic trap, with a finite run and tumble time, by a direct integration of the equation of motion. An exact 1D steady state distribution, diagram laws and a programmable Volterra…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Aoran Sun , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

In N-body simulations of collisionless stellar systems, the forces are softened to reduce the shot noise. Softening modifies gravity at r=|x-y| smaller than softening length epsilon and the softened forces are increasingly biased for ever…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter Dehnen

NIMASTEP is a dedicated numerical software developed by us, which allows one to integrate the osculating motion (using cartesian coordinates) in a Newtonian approach of an object considered as a point-mass orbiting a homogeneous central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 N. Delsate , A. Compère

One approach with rising popularity in analyzing time-dependent problems in science and engineering is the so-called space-time finite-element method that utilized finiteelements in both space and time. A common ansatz in this context is to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Eugen Salzmann , Florian Zwicke , Stefanie Elgeti

We present a dynamical framework for modeling the motion of point-like charged particles, with or without mass, in general external electromagnetic fields. A key feature of this formulation is the treatment of time coordinate as a dynamical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zui Oporto , Gonzalo Marcelo Ramírez-Ávila

Analysis of self-similarity in scale-free $N$-body simulations reveals the spatial and temporal scales for which statistics measured in cosmological simulations are converged to the physical continuum limit. We examine how the range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Lehman H. Garrison , Michael Joyce , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The P$^3$T scheme is a hybrid method for simulating gravitational $N$-body systems. It combines a fast particle-tree (PT) algorithm for long-range forces with a high-accuracy particle-particle (PP, direct $N$-body) solver for short-range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Long Wang , David M. Hernandez , Zepeng Zheng , Wanhao Huang

We formulate and test a hybrid fluid-Monte Carlo scheme for the treatment of elastic collisions in gases and plasmas. While our primary focus and demonstrations of applicability are for moderately collisional plasmas, as described by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. F. Ricketson , M. S. Rosin , R. E. Caflisch , Andris M. Dimits

The state of the art in electromagnetic Finite Element Particle-in-Cell (EM-FEMPIC) has advanced significantly in the last few years. These have included understanding function spaces that must be used to represent sources and fields…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Omkar H. Ramachandran , Zane D. Crawford , Scott O'Connor , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

In this paper, we first describe how we can arrange any bodies on Figure-Eight without collision in a dense subset of $[0,T]$ after showing that the self-intersections of Figure-Eight will not happen in this subset. Then it is reasonable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leshun Xu , Yong Li

In this study, an $N$-body simulation code was developed for self-gravitating systems with a limited first-order post-Newtonian approximation. The code was applied to a special case in which the system consists of one massive object and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Takayuki Tatekawa

Using the Ricci and scalar curvatures of the configuration manifold of gravitational N-body systems, we study the exponential instability in their trajectories. It is found that the exponentiation time-scale for isotropic Plummer spheres…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amr El-Zant

In this paper the exact analytical solution of the motion of a rigid body with arbitrary mass distribution is derived in the absence of forces or torques. The resulting expressions are cast into a form where the dependence of the motion on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-31 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

A framework for performing event-driven, adaptive time step simulations of systems of rigid bodies interacting under stepped or terraced potentials in which the potential energy is only allowed to have discrete values is outlined. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-11 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

Predicting a potential collision with leading vehicles is an essential functionality of any autonomous/assisted driving system. One bottleneck of existing vision-based solutions is that their updating rate is limited to the frame rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jinghang Li , Bangyan Liao , Xiuyuan LU , Peidong Liu , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou