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The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

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Emission and absorption line features are important diagnostics for the physics underlying extragalactic astronomy. The interpretation of observed signatures involves comparing against forward modeled spectra from galaxy formation…

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As an entry for the 1999 Gordon Bell price/performance prize, we report an astrophysical N-body simulation performed with a treecode on GRAPE-5 (Gravity Pipe 5) system, a special-purpose computer for astrophysical N-body simulations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Kawai , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

Collsionless astrophysical and space plasmas cover regions that typically display a separation of scales that exceeds any code's capabilities. To help address this problem, the muphyII code utilizes a hierarchy of models with different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Simon Lautenbach , Magnus Deisenhofer , Rainer Grauer

REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem. It is highly modular and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-24 Hanno Rein , Shang-Fei Liu

We develop a "semi-parallel" simulation technique suggested by Pretorius and Lehner, in which the simulation spacetime volume is divided into a large number of small 4-volumes which have only initial and final surfaces. Thus there is no…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum , Benjamin Shlaer

Recently proposed modifications of the standard particle-in-cell (PIC) method resolve long-standing limitations such as exact preservation of physically conserved quantities and unbiased ensemble down-sampling. Such advances pave the way…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Frida Brogren , Christoffer Olofsson , Joel Magnusson , Arkady Gonoskov

Runko is a new open-source plasma simulation framework implemented in C++ and Python. It is designed to function as an easy-to-extend general toolbox for simulating astrophysical plasmas with different theoretical and numerical models.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 J. Nättilä

We present a new code for astrophysical magneto-hydrodynamics specifically designed and optimized for high performance and scaling on modern and future supercomputers. We describe a novel hybrid OpenMP/MPI programming model that emerged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Peter Mendygral , Nick Radcliffe , Krishna Kandalla , David Porter , Brian J. O'Neill , Chris Nolting , Paul Edmon , Julius M. F. Donnert , Thomas W. Jones

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 present MG-GLAM, a code developed for the very fast production of full $N$-body cosmological simulations in modified gravity (MG) models. We describe the implementation, numerical tests and first results of a large suite of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Cheng-Zong Ruan , César Hernández-Aguayo , Baojiu Li , Christian Arnold , Carlton M. Baugh , Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada

We present a numerical code for multi-component simulation of the galactic evolution. Our code includes the following parts: $N$-body is used to evolve dark matter, stellar dynamics and dust grains, gas dynamics is based on TVD-MUSCL scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. V. Khoperskov , V. N. Lubimov

Current research efforts in aeroelasticity aim at including higher fidelity aerodynamic results into the simulation frameworks. In the present effort, the Python--based Fluid--Structure Interaction framework of the well known SU2 code has…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Nicola Fonzi , Vittorio Cavalieri , Alessandro De Gaspari , Sergio Ricci

The performance of biomolecular molecular dynamics simulations has steadily increased on modern high performance computing resources but acceleration of the analysis of the output trajectories has lagged behind so that analyzing simulations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mahzad Khoshlessan , Ioannis Paraskevakos , Geoffrey C. Fox , Shantenu Jha , Oliver Beckstein

We describe a new electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code in curvilinear geometry called Curvilinear PIC (CPIC). The code models the microscopic (kinetic) evolution of a plasma with the PIC method, coupled with an adaptive computational…

A collisional $N$-body simulation using NBODY5 on a single CRAY YMP processor is followed well into the post-collapse regime. This is presently one of the largest particle numbers of all such models published, but some data for an even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rainer Spurzem , Sverre J. Aarseth

Scientific simulation leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) systems is crucial for modeling complex systems and phenomena in fields such as astrophysics, climate science, and fluid dynamics, generating massive datasets that often…

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