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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…

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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

The numerical simulation of turbulence and flows in almost ideal, large-Reynolds-number astrophysical plasmas motivates the implementation of almost conservative MHD computer codes. They should efficiently calculate, use highly parallelized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Skála , F. Baruffa , J. Büchner , M. Rampp

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We describe a version of an algorithm for evolving self-gravitating collections of particles that should be nearly ideal for parallel architectures. Our method is derived from the ``self-consistent field'' (SCF) approach suggested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Lars Hernquist , Steinn Sigurdsson , Greg L. Bryan

We present a study of numerical effects in dissipationless cosmological simulations. The numerical effects are evaluated and studied by comparing results of a series of 64^3-particle simulations of varying force resolution and number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Knebe , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Stefan Gottloeber , Anatoly Klypin

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

We study the accumulation of errors in cosmological N-body algorithms that are caused by representing the continuous distribution of matter by massive particles, comparing the PPPM and Adaptive Multigrid codes. We use for this a new measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivar Suisalu , Enn Saar

The TREE method has been widely used for long-range interaction {\it N}-body problems. We have developed a parallel TREE code for two-component classical plasmas with open boundary conditions and highly non-uniform charge distributions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Byoungseon Jeon , Joel D. Kress , Lee A. Collins , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Stellar systems are broadly divided into collisional and non-collisional. The latter are large-N systems with long relaxation timescales and can be simulated disregarding two-body interactions, while either computationally expensive direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Hyunwoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

We describe a new implementation of a parallel N-body tree code. The code is load-balanced using the method of orthogonal recursive bisection to subdivide the N-body system into independent rectangular volumes each of which is mapped to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 John Dubinski

iPIC3D is a widely used massively parallel Particle-in-Cell code for the simulation of space plasmas. However, its current implementation does not support execution on multiple GPUs. In this paper, we describe the porting of iPIC3D particle…

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We discuss the performance of direct summation codes used in the simulation of astrophysical stellar systems on highly distributed architectures. These codes compute the gravitational interaction among stars in an exact way and have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessia Gualandris , Simon Portegies Zwart , Alfredo Tirado-Ramos

We present the new relativistic cosmological particle-mesh code $\texttt{fRevolution}$, based on $\texttt{gevolution}$, aimed at simulating non-linear structure formation in $f(R)$ gravity. We introduce the general framework and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Lorenzo Reverberi , David Daverio

Particle discretizations of partial differential equations are advantageous for high-dimensional kinetic models in phase space due to their better scalability than continuum approaches with respect to dimension. Complex processes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mark F. Adams , Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay

We review a scalable two- and three-dimensional computer code for low-temperature plasma simulations in multi-material complex geometries. Our approach is based on embedded boundary (EB) finite volume discretizations of the minimal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Robert Marskar

This paper presents CUBEP3M, a publicly-available high performance cosmological N-body code and describes many utilities and extensions that have been added to the standard package. These include a memory-light runtime SO halo finder, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugh Merz , J. D. Emberson , Vincent Desjacques

Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Hao-Ran Yu , Ue-Li Pen , Xin Wang

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

Direct $N$-body simulations of star clusters are accurate but expensive, largely due to the numerous $\mathcal{O} (N^2)$ pairwise force calculations. To solve the post-million-body problem, it will be necessary to use approximate force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 Diptajyoti Mukherjee , Qirong Zhu , Hy Trac , Carl L. Rodriguez