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We present the first non-LTE, co-moving frame molecular line calculations of a star-forming cluster simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), from which we derive high-resolution synthetic observations. We have resampled a…

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We provide a description of the SNSPH code--a parallel 3-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code implementing treecode gravity, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and flux-limited diffusion transport schemes. We provide descriptions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Fryer , G. Rockefeller , M. S. Warren

Simulations of galaxy formation follow the gravitational and hydrodynamical interactions between gas, stars and dark matter through cosmic time. The huge dynamic range of such calculations severely limits strong scaling behaviour of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Tom Theuns , Aidan Chalk , Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet

A merge tree is a topological descriptor of a real-valued function. Merge trees are used in visualization and topological data analysis, either directly or as a means to another end: computing a 0-dimensional persistence diagram,…

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Gravitational $N$-body simulations calculate numerous interactions between particles. The tree algorithm reduces these calculations by constructing a hierarchical oct-tree structure and approximating gravitational forces on particles. Over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoyuki Tokuue , Tomoaki Ishiyama

We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John Dubinski , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Robin Humble

Currently there is great interest in the outcomes and astrophysical implications of mergers of double degenerate binaries. In a commonly adopted approximation, the components of such binaries are represented by polytropes with an index…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Patrick M Motl , Juhan Frank , Jan Staff , Geoffrey C Clayton , Christopher L Fryer , Wesley Even , Steven Diehl , Joel E Tohline

We present a new approach to study galaxy evolution in a cosmological context. We combine cosmological merger trees and semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to provide the initial conditions for multi-merger hydrodynamic simulations. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Benjamin P. Moster , Andrea V. Macciò , Rachel S. Somerville

We present a modified TREESPH code to model galaxies in 3d. The model includes a multi-phase description of the interstellar medium which combines two numerical techniques. A diffuse warm/hot gas phase is modelled by SPH while a sticky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Harfst , C. Theis , G. Hensler

We present a study of the galaxy population predicted by hydrodynamical simulations for a set of 19 galaxy clusters based on the GADGET-2 Tree+SPH code. These simulations include gas cooling, star formation, a detailed treatment of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Saro , S. Borgani , L. Tornatore , K. Dolag , G. Murante , A. Biviano , F. Calura , S. Charlot

FLY is a parallel treecode which makes heavy use of the one-sided communication paradigm to handle the management of the tree structure. In its public version the code implements the equations for cosmological evolution, and can be run for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani , D. Ferro

Halo merger trees describe the hierarchical mass assembly of dark matter haloes, and are the backbone for modeling galaxy formation and evolution. Merger trees constructed using Monte Carlo algorithms based on the extended Press-Schechter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Fangzhou Jiang , Frank C. van den Bosch

We present a computational algorithm for computing short range forces between particles. The algorithm has two distinguishing features. First, it is optimized for multi-processor computers, and will use as many processors as are available.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger

We simulate the formation and chemodynamical evolution of 124 elliptical galaxies by using a GRAPE-SPH code that includes various physical processes associated with the formation of stellar systems: radiative cooling, star formation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Chiaki Kobayashi

Tree codes that approximate groups of distant particles with multipole expansions are the standard way to accelerate the computation of self-gravity on particles. While momentum-conserving fast multipole methods exist, parallelisation is…

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[abridged] We present results from the latest version of the GAEA theoretical model of galaxy formation coupled with merger trees extracted from the Planck Millennium Simulation (PMS). With respect to the Millennium Simulation, the PMS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Fabio Fontanot , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Michaela Hirschmann , Carlton Baugh , John C. Helly

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 have implemented a parallel version of the Barnes-Hut 3-D N-body tree algorithm under PVM 3.2.5, adopting an SPMD paradigm. We parallelize the problem by decomposing the physical domain by means of the {\bf Orthogonal Recursive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani

We present a novel approach to accelerate astrophysical hydrodynamical simulations. In astrophysical many-body simulations, GRAPE (GRAvity piPE) system has been widely used by many researchers. However, in the GRAPE systems, its function is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Nakasato , T. Hamada , T. Fukushige

We present the first hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the new moving mesh code AREPO and compare the results with GADGET simulations based on a traditional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist