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(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

We present performance measurements of direct gravitational N -body simulation on the grid, with and without specialized (GRAPE-6) hardware. Our inter-continental virtual organization consists of three sites, one in Tokyo, one in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Jun Makino

We describe a new implementation of a parallel Tree-SPH code with the aim to simulate Galaxy Formation and Evolution. The code has been parallelized using SHMEM, a Cray proprietary library to handle communications between the 256 processors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro

In this letter we describe the pseudoparticle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to express multipole expansion by a distribution of pseudoparticles. We can use this distribution of particles to calculate high order terms in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

The use of adaptive spatial resolution to simulate flows of practical interest using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is of considerable importance. Recently, Muta and Ramachandran [1] have proposed an efficient adaptive SPH method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Asmelash Haftu , Abhinav Muta , Prabhu Ramachandran

We developed a PCI interface for GRAPE systems. GRAPE(GRAvity piPE) is a special-purpose computer for gravitational N-body simulations. A GRAPE system consists of GRAPE processor boards and a host computer. GRAPE processors perform the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Kawai , T. Fukushige , M. Taiji , J. Makino , D. Sugimoto

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulation code, Bonsai-SPH, which is a continuation of our previously developed gravity-only hierarchical $N$-body code (called Bonsai). The code is optimized for Graphics Processing Unit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GRAPE-6 system, a massively-parallel special-purpose computer for astrophysical $N$-body simulations. GRAPE-6 is the successor of GRAPE-4, which was completed in 1995 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junichiro Makino , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Masaki Koga , Ken Namura

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We present numerical simulations of galaxy formation, one of the most challenging problems in computational astrophysics. The key point in such simulations is the efficient solution of the N--body problem. If the gas of a galaxy is treated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

We describe a simple method for simulating the dynamics of small grains in a dusty gas, relevant to micron-sized grains in the interstellar medium and grains of centimetre size and smaller in protoplanetary discs. The method involves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Daniel J. Price , Guillaume Laibe

We describe and demonstrate a method for increasing the resolution locally in a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) simulation, by splitting particles. We show that in simulations of self-gravitating collapse (of the sort which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth

Simulating the flow of different fluids can be a highly computational intensive process, which requires large amounts of resources. Recently there has been a lot of research effort directed towards GPU processing, which can greatly increase…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Adrian Coman , Elena Apostol , Catalin Leordeanu , Emil Slusanschi

A numerical method based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics with adaptive spatial resolution (SPH-ASR) was developed for simulating free surface flows. This method can reduce the computational demands while maintaining the numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong , Moubin Liu , Qingquan Liu

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is essential for modeling complex large-deformation problems across various applications, requiring significant computational power. A major portion of SPH computation time is dedicated to the Nearest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zirui Mao , Xinyi Li , Shenyang Hu , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Ang Li

We present an implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in an adaptive-mesh PPPM algorithm. The code evolves a mixture of purely gravitational particles and gas particles. The code retains the desirable properties of previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas , F. R. Pearce

This paper describes a novel approach to neighbour-finding in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations with large dynamic range in smoothing length. This approach is based on hierarchical cell decompositions, sorted interactions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Pedro Gonnet , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns , Aidan B. G. Chalk

In this work we will identify a novel relation between Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and explicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using a coarse-graining method from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD). While the current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

To simulate the dynamics of fluid with polydisperse particles on macroscale level, one has to solve hydrodynamic equations with several relaxation terms, representing momentum transfer from fluid to particles and vice versa. For small…

We describe PTreeSPH, a gravity treecode combined with an SPH hydrodynamics code designed for massively parallel supercomputers having distributed memory. Our computational algorithm is based on the popular TreeSPH code of Hernquist & Katz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Romeel Dave' , John Dubinski , Lars Hernquist