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    an N-body simulation is a simulation of a dynamical system of particles, usually under the influence of physical forces, such as gravity (see n-body problem...
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  • of the Solar System Few-body systems N-body simulation, a method for numerically obtaining trajectories of bodies in an N-body system. Leimanis and Minorsky:...
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    Minovitch n-body simulation Symplectic integrator Sitnikov problem Two-body problem Synodic reference frame Triple star system The Three-Body Problem (novel)...
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    The Barnes–Hut simulation (named after Joshua Barnes and Piet Hut) is an approximation algorithm for performing an N-body simulation. It is notable for...
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    of photons. In computational physics, N-body simulations (also called N-particle simulations) are simulations of dynamical systems of particles under...
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  • particle-in-cell (PIC) and the closely related particle-mesh (PM), N-body simulations, Monte Carlo methods, as well as grid-free (with smoothed particle...
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    Jeans equation have found great utility in N-body simulation gravitational research. The scale of these simulations can range in size from just the Solar System...
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    requires solving the N-body problem. The naive computational cost for a dynamic simulation increases in proportion to N 2 (where N is the number of objects)...
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    Consortium. At the time, this was the largest N-body simulation ever carried out, with 10 billion N-body particles representing the dark matter distribution...
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    related to N-body simulation. For example, the Barnes–Hut simulation-based method FADE can improve the running time to be linearithmic, or n log ⁡ ( n ) {\displaystyle...
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    Both the Kauffmann group and Okamoto and Nagashima later took up the N-body simulation derived merger history tree approach. Some of the galaxies that are...
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  • observations of globular clusters. It is now often used as toy model in N-body simulations of stellar systems. The Plummer 3-dimensional density profile is given...
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    Barnes–Hut treecode on GPUs – towards cost effective, high performance N-body simulation". Computer Science – Research and Development. 24 (1–2): 21–31. doi:10...
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  • galaxies and the density profiles predicted by cosmological N-body simulations. Nearly all simulations form dark matter halos which have "cuspy" dark matter...
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  • MAchine) is a high performance computer cluster used for hierarchical N-body simulations at the Nagasaki Advanced Computing Center, Nagasaki University. The...
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  • Soft-body dynamics is a field of computer graphics that focuses on visually realistic physical simulations of the motion and properties of deformable...
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    Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard...
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  • distribution of dark matter fitted to dark matter halos identified in N-body simulations by Julio Navarro, Carlos Frenk and Simon White. The NFW profile is...
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    A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world. In this broad sense, simulation can often be used...
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    n i n i + n n , {\displaystyle \alpha ={\frac {n_{i}}{n_{i}+n_{n}}},} where n i {\displaystyle n_{i}} is the ion density and n n {\displaystyle n_{n}}...
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  • The Millennium Run, or Millennium Simulation (referring to its size) is a computer N-body simulation used to investigate how the distribution of matter...
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    collapse is non-linear, and can only be computed accurately using N-body simulations. Higher-order statistics are necessary to describe the full field...
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  • three-body problem, where the origin coincides with the barycenter of the two larger celestial bodies. Other reference frames for n-body simulations include...
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    (2014). "Dynamics of the terrestrial planets from a large number of N-body simulations". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 392: 28–38. Bibcode:2014E&PSL...
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  • SDK for quantum simulations and more". ZDNet. "Everything announced at Nvidia's GTC 2021: A data center CPU, SDK for quantum simulations and more". ZDNet...
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  • largest scales, but on smaller scales more involved techniques, such as N-body simulations, must be used. When deciding whether to use general relativity for...
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    bulges in general and of box/peanut bulges in particular: input from N-body simulations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 358 (4): 1477–1488...
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    written from scratch if non-standard effects or behaviors are desired. N-body simulation Particle method Reeves, William (1983). "Particle Systems—A Technique...
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    other hand argue that the distribution of PMOs in NGC 1333 follows N-body simulations of objects that form like stars and that none of the PMOs has a peculiar...
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  • solutions; and again obsolete. See Sverre J. Aarseth's book Gravitational N-body Simulations listed in the References. Quasi-steady loads refers to the instantaneous...
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