Questions tagged [simulation]
Simulation is the process of mimicking the behaviour of a real physical process or system using a representative model.
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Optimization techniques for expensive multi-variable functions
I'm working with a finite element model in which I'm interested to minimize the average temperature at a surface. I have 15 independent variables in my model, including geometry, materials, flows, ...
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Harmonic oscillators with periodic boundary conditions
I am trying to simulate multiple harmonic oscillators in periodic boundary conditions (subsequently visualizing the process in VMD). I have successfully simulated multiple HOs by using the Leapfrog ...
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correct way to implement a 3/8ths-rule RK4 solver for a changing wind field
I am trying to simulate particles in a wind field. The wind field is variable and changes over both position and time. I can sample the wind vector at a given position p and a given time t using wind(...
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Can OpenFoam be used for interactive simulations (flying a plane)?
I'm a software engineer and I've just started to fly rc-planes. I'm currently building a self learning auto-pilot for my plane and I'm really interested in CFD. I installed OpenFOAM and ran through ...
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How to choose the parameters for a collision free comet trajectory
I implemented a simple simulation of a comet flying through space being deflected by the gravity of randomly generated planets for art purposes. My problem with that simulation is, that there are many ...
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Determining the pseudo-time period of a system of $n$-pendulums via Kane's method in Python
We can use Kane's method to integrate the equations of motion for a system of $n$ pendulums with arbitrary masses and lengths (see derivation). In particular, if $(x_i,y_i)$ denotes the Cartesian ...
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Software for cellular automota
I would like to do simulations using cellular automata to describe the behavior of influenza. What software do you recommend?
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Simulating Brownian motion in 3-D for first hitting time?
I want to simulate Brownian motion in 3-D for the following conditions:
$$p(x=0,y=0,z=0,t=0)=1$$
$$p(x,y,z=c,t)=0$$ where $p$ is the probability of finding molecules in the 3-D environment. I want to ...
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Radiation heat transfer between surfaces
I'm trying to model the temperature distribution over a curved surface. Apart from the heat equation, I need to take into account the energy emission/absorption through electromagnetic radiation. The ...
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Writing parallel code for molecular computation [duplicate]
I recently moved towards computational biophysics from an experimental science background. As of now, I am learning the fundamentals and doing some basic monte carlo simulations of LJ fluid on my ...
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Custom exponents for Lennard Jones in LAMMPS
I am trying to run an MD simulation using this generalized version of Lennard Jones.
$$
U(r) = \left(\frac{r_0}{r}\right)^A -\frac{A}{B}\left( \frac{r_0}{r} \right)^B
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However, I do not know how ...
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How to simulate basic semiconductor models using the Drift-diffusion model on Python?
I'm trying to simulate basic semiconductor models for pedagogical purposes--starting from the Drift-diffusion model. Although I don't want to use an off-the-shelf semiconductor simulator--I'll be ...
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Multi-steps method for Navier-stokes equations with strongly nonlinear diffusion
I am trying to solve a particular form of the Euler / Navier-Stokes equations in 1D, with very strong and non-linear diffusion coefficients.
My system of equations is
\begin{cases}
\...
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How can Navier--Stokes equations have asymmetric solutions such as Karman vortex streets
The Navier--Stokes equations are axially symmetric, so with symmetric boundary conditions, how can features such as Karman vortex streets develop?
I understand that in reality symmetry does never ...
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What scientific problems can be simulated that couldn’t be simulated 10 years ago?
What scientific problems can be simulated with computers that couldn’t be simulated 10 years ago?
I’m particularly interested in cutting-edge scientific simulations, which wouldn’t have been possible ...
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Simulation-based Optimization vs PDE-constrained Optimization
What is the difference between Simulation-based Optimization and PDE-constrained Optimization?
Would studying a text on Simulation-based optimization be sufficient to understand and apply both?
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What are the things I should keep in mind before doing an analysis of my gromacs simulation?
I did a liquid argon simulation at 100k. I forgot during analysis that I need to accommodate for the Periodic Boundary Conditions before doing any analysis which included distance. What are other such ...
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Barnes-Hut method for gravitational dynamics
I have an assignment where i got this definition - "The dots velocities following the Maxwell distribution with typical velocity of $$v=<v>^{\frac{1}{2}}$$ and that mean that each of the ...
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Effective way to build the neighbor's list in MD
I'm trying to implement the following form of the cell/neighbor list method in my MD code. I have divided my simulation box into a fixed number of cells, and according to its positions, I have ...
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build a simple incompressible solver with spectral method
I am trying to build a simple solver for the incompressible fluid in a periodic box to learn the spectral method. I am following the textbook (Peyret R. Spectral methods for incompressible viscous ...
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reading and processing large GRIB files
I'm trying to convert and process GrADS (grib) files into netcdf files. The files have values every 3 hours (2890 per year), 12 z levels, 120 variables, 241 columns and 236 rows. The data is almost 80 ...
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MD Simulation: Reference for the Neighbor's List Method
With a rather basic knowledge in C++, I have written my own MD simulation code. Currently, I calculate forces in the most naive way: I go through all the atoms and account for their interactions. This ...
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Physics Simulation in C++
OK, I know a bit of C++ (very basic syntax), and I want to do physics simulation in C++, like stuff like (also the things mentioned here):
Ripples and waves over a 2-d surface
Vibrating string/...
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Magnetostatic modelling Radia: Increasing distance between magnets a produces positive force until a certain point, beyond which force goes haywire
I have two sets of magnets. One set consists of two electromagnets (Shown below: Blue) and the other set consists of two NdFeB N40 permanent magnets. Both sets of magnets lie on the same plane. I want ...
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Mean-squared displacement in Monte Carlo studies
Is measuring mean-squared-displacement in Monte Carlo simulations uncommon? I'm very interested to find out if this has actually ever been tried.
For instance, in the context of spheres, or ...
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Simulation of surface tension-dominated interfaces
I want to simulate the shape of the free surface in a small fuel tank in microgravity, which is very slowly being emptied.
The tank is not symmetric, the geometry is given by CAD (e.g. step file).
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On which software can I simulate landmass collisions?
I need to be able to set the properties of the materials (density, size etc) and see what happens according to laws in Physics when landmasses collide each others, with or without bodies of water, ...
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Finite-volume method applied to a particular advection equation
I'm trying to apply the finite-volume method (FVM), with which I'm not so familiar, so a simple 1D PDE equation. I already asked this question in the math stackexchange, but was told that it could be ...
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Combine Hydrodynamics and Electromagnetics
Is it possible, in general, to combine hydrodynamical motion and expansion of material with, say, a finite difference time domain method to simulate light-matter interaction?
If so, how is this done ...
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Discussing the energy spectrum of Langevin Dynamics simulation of many atoms
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I've coded a multiparticle MD simulation in 3D. It is based on Langevin Dynamics, with random impulse and dissipation. I think the program works correctly now? I have attached the plots of ...
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Sampling simulation steps logarithmically
The common case of for instance a Monte Carlo simulation is, if we want to run our simulation for $N$ steps, we define a delta $\Delta,$ such that $N/\Delta = n$ tells us the frequency with which we ...
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Diffusion properties of hard spheres in Monte Carlo simulation
In standard Monte Carlo simulations, say for hard sphere systems, how should one compute the mean-squared displacement of the spheres in order to extract dynamical properties such as the diffusion ...
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Dealing with simultaneous collisions in N-body sim
I have written an 2d N-body simulation in Python which allows collisions between the bodies.
A body is modeled as a circle whose area is proportional to its mass. Each time the sim advances by one ...
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Does excitation type matter in a time-domain simulation/computation of a transfer function of an LTI system?
Let's say I am running a FDTD simulation of a wave-equation to determine a transfer function of an LTI system:
\begin{equation}
H(f) = \dfrac{Y(f)}{X(f)}\
\end{equation}
where $Y(f)$ and $X(f)$ are ...
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Oil/Water interface simulation using GROMACS
I would like to perform a decane/water(tip4p) interface simulation using GROMACS to analyse the fluctuation of the interface over a long period of time (50ps - 1ns).
Though I have a rough idea on ...
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Why can we predict global temperatures years ahead but we cannot reliably predict weather weeks ahead?
In case of global temperatures we are interested in aggregate values rather than local distributions. Is this the reason we can accurately predict one but not the other?
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Simulating periodic boundary condition with long_range interaction
Consider 2 particles in a 2D plane. There is a long-range interaction between two particles:
$$f (r_i-r_j)= \frac{\vec{r_i} - \vec{r_j}}{|r_i-r_j|^3}$$
$$\vec{r_i} =(x_i,y_i)$$
$r_i$ determines the ...
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Applying pressure on simulation box
We have a 3D simulation box (cubic, side $L$) filled with $N$ non-overlapping objects (say spheres). We are interested to study the evolution of the system under an applied pressure in the z-direction ...
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Questions about implementing an electromagnetism/photonics solver package
I am hoping to start (very slowly) on implementing some form of a computational photonics/electromagnetism package. I know things like Meep, S4, FDTD++, EMPy, and a host of other proprietary/free/...
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2D simulation of a particle with different diffusion coefficient in different directions of the particle
How can one simulate diffusion of a particle which has a natural axis and diffusion coefficient of the particle in the direction of the axis is D_1 and in perpendicular to the axis is D_2?
Could ...
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Multiscale Simulation of random walker
I want to simulate a system of random walkers (called A) with diffusion coefficient equal to D and other systems of random walkers (called type B) with diffusion coefficient equal to 1000 D. Second ...
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A program to simulate cellular automaton model
I have worked on mathematical modeling based on differential equations, and now I want to simulate a cellular automaton based on a ...
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How do I simulate an open end?
When simulating a partial differential equation describing a physical phenomenon like vibrations on a string, fluid flow in a chamber or quantum wave functions, the most straight-forward way is to ...
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GAMS Optimization
I am writing a GAMS program where I am interested in using the value of a variable as a condition inside an another equation. Let's say I have two equations with two variables, $g_1(t)$ and $g_2(t)$, ...
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Should energy be conserved in an N-body simulation where particles don't lose energy in collisions?
In an N-body simulation where forces between particles are attractive and particles do not lose energy on colliding with walls or each other, should energy be conserved? How could it be, with total ...
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Simulating a Hill-Type muscle model
I'm trying to do biologically based locomotion animation.
I have a Hill-Type Muscle Model (see reference 1) that I've implemented in code. I can find the initial lengths of the tendons, then do a ...
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Dielectric in an external electric field
I want to numerically solve for electric field of an object in an external electric field. The object has linear displacement field such that its permitivity ($\epsilon$) is constant. The object's ...
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Infinite force in simulation [closed]
In physical problems the infinite force is easily implemented by the mathematical form of that force, take $1/r$ as an example, whenever the distance between two particles becomes small the force goes ...
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RCWA for Non-Periodic Structure?
I have a quick question regarding Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) for numerically solving problems (in optics). I am trying to simulate a device which is non-periodic in x, y directions (but is ...
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Error in MD simulation with Lennard-Jones potential in C, resulting in a lack of conservation of energy
I'm working on a MD simulation using the Lennard-Jones potential and the Velocity Verlet algorithm. The code compiles and runs, but the energy for each time step is not conserved; it decreases ...
