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A code computing consistently the evolution of stars, gas and dust, as well as the energy they radiate, is required to derive reliably the history of galaxies by fitting synthetic SEDs to multiwavelength observations. The new code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Michel Fioc , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange

We explore some of the effects that discreteness and two-body scattering may have on N-body simulations with ``realistic'' cosmological initial conditions. We use an identical subset of particles from the initial conditions for a $128^3$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Randall J. Splinter , Adrian L. Melott , Sergei F. Shandarin , Yasushi Suto

For the self-consistent description of various plasma sources operated in the low-pressure (nonlocal, kinetic) regime, the Particle-In-Cell simulation approach, combined with the Monte Carlo treatment of collision processes (PIC/MCC), has…

This is to announce a recent release of version 1.0.1a9 of parallel load balanced adaptive P3M cosmological N-body code named GRACOS. The code has been under development over years and is available for the download at http://www.gracos.org.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-30 Alexander Shirokov

Modeling multi-scale collisionless magnetized processes constitutes an important numerical challenge. By treating electrons as a fluid and ions kinetically, the so-called hybrid Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes represent a promising…

Fast algorithms for the computation of $N$-body problems can be broadly classified into mesh-based interpolation methods, and hierarchical or multiresolution methods. To this last class belongs the well-known fast multipole method (FMM),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Matthew G. Knepley , L. A. Barba

We devise and explore an iterative optimization procedure for controlling particle populations in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes via merging and splitting of computational macro-particles. Our approach, is to compute an optimal representation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 J. Trier Frederiksen , G. Lapenta , M. E. Pessah

In this dissertation, a fully object-oriented, fully relativistic, multi-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code was developed and applied to answer key questions in plasma-based accelerator research. The simulations increase the understanding of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Roy G. Hemker

We describe source code level parallelization for the {\tt kira} direct gravitational $N$-body integrator, the workhorse of the {\tt starlab} production environment for simulating dense stellar systems. The parallelization strategy, called…

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

The hybrid method combining particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamics can be used to study the interaction between energetic particles and global plasma modes. In this paper we introduce the M3D-C1-K code, which is developed based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Chang Liu , Stephen C. Jardin , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nathaniel M. Ferraro , Joshua Breslau

We present a novel, GPU-optimized algorithm for particle-mesh interactions in grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, designed for massively parallel architectures. This approach overcomes the inefficiency of particle neighbour searches or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Aditi Vijayan , Mark R. Krumholz , Pak Shing Li

Recently, we have shown how current cosmological N-body codes already follow the fine grained phase-space information of the dark matter fluid. Using a tetrahedral tesselation of the three-dimensional manifold that describes perfectly cold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Oliver Hahn , Tom Abel , Ralf Kaehler

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

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

I describe a nested-grid particle-mesh (NGPM) code designed to study gravitational instability in three-dimensions. The code is based upon a standard PM code. Within the parent grid I am able to define smaller sub-grids allowing us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. J. Splinter

The performance and accuracy of a GRAPE-3 system for collisionless N-body simulations is discussed. After a description of the hardware configurations available to us at Marseille, and the usefulness of on-line analysis, we concentrate on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Athanassoula , A. Bosma , J. -C. Lambert , J. Makino

We propose a parareal based time parallelization scheme in the phase-space for the particle-in-Fourier (PIF) discretization of the Vlasov-Poisson system used in kinetic plasma simulations. We use PIF with a coarse tolerance for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Robert Speck

Numerical methods have become a powerful tool for research in astrophysics, but their utility depends critically on the availability of suitable simulation codes. This calls for continuous efforts in code development, which is necessitated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Oliver Zier , Martin Reinecke

Quasi-2D Coulomb systems are of fundamental importance and have attracted much attention in many areas nowadays. Their reduced symmetry gives rise to interesting collective behaviors, but also brings great challenges for particle-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Zecheng Gan , Xuanzhao Gao , Jiuyang Liang , Zhenli Xu