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The mildly non-linear regime of cosmic structure formation holds much of the information that upcoming large-scale structure surveys aim to exploit, making fast and accurate predictions on these scales essential. We present the $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Florian List , Oliver Hahn , Thomas Flöss , Lukas Winkler

An adaptation of the Particle-Particle/Particle-Mesh (P3M) code to the special purpose hardware GRAPE is presented. The short range force is calculated by a four chip GRAPE-3A board, while the rest of the calculation is performed on a Sun…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Philippe P. Brieu , FJ Summers , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Traditional cosmological hydrodynamical simulations usually assume equal-numbered but unequal-mass dark matter and baryonic particles, which can lead to spurious collisional heating due to energy equipartition. To avoid such a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Shihong Liao , Yizhou Liu , Haonan Zheng , Ming Li , Jie Wang , Liang Gao , Bingqing Sun , Shi Shao

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P3M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tom MacFarland , H. M. P. Couchman , F. R. Pearce , Jakob Pichlmeier

Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pietro Incardona , Antonio Leo , Yaroslav Zaluzhnyi , Rajesh Ramaswamy , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We present a computer code written in C that is designed to simulate structure formation from collisionless matter. The code is purely grid-based and uses a recursively refined Cartesian grid to solve Poisson's equation for the potential,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexander Knebe , Andrew Green , James Binney

This work considers the impact of resolution in the construction of mock observations of simulated galaxies. In particular, when building mock integral field spectroscopic observations from galaxy formation models in cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 K. E. Harborne , C. del P. Lagos , S. M. Croom , J. van de Sande , A. Ludlow , R. S. Remus , L. C. Kimmig , C. Power

We present results from a series of cosmological SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations coupled with the P3M (Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh) solver for the gravitational force. The simulations are designed to predict the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kohji Yoshikawa , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

We use numerical simulations of critically-closed cold dark matter (CDM) models to study the effects of numerical resolution on observable quantities. We study simulations with up to $256^3$ particles using the particle-mesh (PM) method and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 James M. Gelb , Edmund Bertschinger

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

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 present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

Particle-In-Cell codes are widely used for plasma physics simulations. It is often the case that particles within a computational cell need to be split to improve the statistics or, in the case of non-uniform meshes, to avoid the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Roch Smets , Nicolas Aunais , ANdrea Ciardi , Matthieu Drouin , Martin Campos-Pino , Philip Deegan

What are cosmic particles and where do they come from? These are questions which are not only fascinating for scientists in astrophysics. With the CosMO experiment (Cosmic Muon Observer) students can autonomously study these particles. They…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-16 R. Franke , M. Holler , B. Kaminsky , T. Karg , H. Prokoph , A. Schönwald , C. Schwerdt , A. Stößl , M. Walter

Simulations inform all aspects of modern astrophysical research, ranging in scale from 1D and 2D test problems that can run in seconds on an astronomer's laptop all the way to large-scale 3D calculations that run on the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nathan J Goldbaum

Constraining neutrino mass through cosmological observations relies on precise simulations to calibrate their effects on large scale structure, while these simulations must overcome computational challenges like dealing with large velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Bing-Hang Chen , Jun-Jie Zhao , Hao-Ran Yu , Yu Liu , Jian-Hua He , Yipeng Jing

We propose a new numerical procedure to simulate a single dark halo of any size and mass in a hierarchical framework coupling the extended Press-Schechter formalism (EPSF) to N-body simulations. The procedure consists of assigning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena D'Onghia , Claudio Firmani , Guido Chincarini

Particle-in-cell methods couple mesh-based methods for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, with the ability to advect and evolve particles. They have a long history and many applications in scientific computing. However, they have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-12 R. Gassmoeller , E. Heien , E. G. Puckett , W. Bangerth