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We present a new parallel PM N-body code named PMFAST that is freely available to the public. PMFAST is based on a two-level mesh gravity solver where the gravitational forces are separated into long and short range components. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh Merz , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

Numerical simulations are a key tool to decipher the dynamics of gravitation. Yet, they fail to spatially reproduce the Universe we observe, limiting comparison between observations and simulations to a statistical level. This is highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Aurélien Valade , Noam Libeskind , Daniel Pomarède , Richard Stiskalek , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber , R. Brent Tully

Particle-in-cell methods with stochastic collision models are commonly used to simulate collisional plasma dynamics, with applications ranging from hypersonic flight to semiconductor manufacturing. Code verification of such methods is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Brian A. Freno , William J. McDoniel , Christopher H. Moore , Neil R. Matula

We estimate the impact of weak lensing by strongly nonlinear cosmological structures on the cosmic microwave background. Accurate calculation of large $\ell$ multipoles requires N-body simulations and ray-tracing schemes with both high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. J. Fullana , J. V. Arnau , R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman , D. Sáez

We demonstrate that the output of a cosmological N-body simulation can, to remarkable accuracy, be scaled to represent the growth of large-scale structure in a cosmology with parameters similar to but different from those originally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White

We present a new N-body and gas dynamics code, called Nyx, for large-scale cosmological simulations. Nyx follows the temporal evolution of a system of discrete dark matter particles gravitationally coupled to an inviscid ideal fluid in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ann Almgren , John Bell , Mike Lijewski , Zarija Lukić , Ethan Van Andel

The Dark Sky Simulations are an ongoing series of cosmological N-body simulations designed to provide a quantitative and accessible model of the evolution of the large-scale Universe. Such models are essential for many aspects of the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Samuel W. Skillman , Michael S. Warren , Matthew J. Turk , Risa H. Wechsler , Daniel E. Holz , P. M. Sutter

The development of molecular complexity during stellar and planetary formation owes much to the interaction of gas and dust. When the first astrochemical models including solid-state chemistry were developed more than forty years ago, data…

We present a public data release of halo catalogs from a suite of 125 cosmological $N$-body simulations from the Abacus project. The simulations span 40 $w$CDM cosmologies centered on the Planck 2015 cosmology at two mass resolutions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Jeremy L. Tinker , Philip A. Pinto , David H. Weinberg

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

We developed a portable code for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. This Fortran program named CAMUS has a couple of notable features. One is the omission of constructing the so-called neighboring particles list, providing a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Hideo Doi , Koji Okuwaki , Takamitsu Naito , Sona Saitou , Yuji Mochizuki

We introduce FastPM, a highly-scalable approximated particle mesh N-body solver, which implements the particle mesh (PM) scheme enforcing correct linear displacement (1LPT) evolution via modified kick and drift factors. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yu Feng , Man-Yat Chu , Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald

This paper compares quantum computing simulators running on a single CPU or GPU-based HPC node using the Quantum Volume benchmark commonly proposed for comparing NISQ systems. As simulators do not suffer from noise, the metric used in the…

The rapidly growing statistical precision of galaxy surveys has lead to a need for ever-more precise predictions of the observables used to constrain cosmological and galaxy formation models. The primary avenue through which such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker , Yao-Yuan Mao , Thomas McClintock , Sean McLaughlin , Eduardo Rozo , Zhongxu Zhai

We present an algorithm which is designed to allow the efficient identification and preliminary dynamical analysis of thousands of structures and substructures in large N-body simulations. First we utilise a refined density gradient system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jochen Weller , Jeremiah P Ostriker , Paul Bode , Laurie Shaw

We present cosmo_learn, an open-source python-based software package designed to simulate cosmological data and perform data-driven inference using a range of modern statistical and machine learning techniques. Motivated by the growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Daniela Grandón , Jackson Levi Said , Víctor H. Cárdenas , Gene Carlo Belinario , Reinabelle Reyes

Through the last three decades, accurate simulation of the interactions of particles with matter and modeling of detector geometries has proven to be of critical importance to the success of the international high-energy physics (HEP)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-17 V. Daniel Elvira

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

We introduce a particle-based simulation method for granular material in interactive frame rates. We divide the simulation into two decoupled steps. In the first step, a relatively small number of particles is accurately simulated with a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Alexander Sommer , Ulrich Schwanecke , Elmar Schömer

Existing models for the dependence of the halo mass function on cosmological parameters will become a limiting source of systematic uncertainty for cluster cosmology in the near future. We present a halo mass function emulator and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas McClintock , Eduardo Rozo , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yau-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhongxu Zhai
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