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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Where do the laws of quantum mechanics break down in simulations?
As someone who holds a BA in physics I was somewhat scandalized when I began working with molecular simulations. It was a bit of a shock to discover that even the most detailed and computationally ...
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Parallel Scientific Computation Software Development Language?
I want to develop a parallel scientific computation software from scratch. I want some thoughts on which language to start. The program involves reading/writing data to txt files and doing heavy ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the particle decomposition and domain decomposition parallelization algorithms?
I am running molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using several software packages, like Gromacs and DL_POLY.
Gromacs now supports both the particle decomposition and domain decomposition algorithms. ...
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What guidelines should I follow for simulation software projects?
I am not sure whether this question belongs here, but I would like to give it a try and benefit from the experience of the people at scicomp.SE.
From my experience, the software quality in ...
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Conserving Energy in Physics Simulation with imperfect Numerical Solver
I am creating a C++ Physics Simulation where I need to move an rigid body through an acting force field.
Problem: simulation does not conserve energy.
Quesiton: abstractly, how is conservation of ...
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Arbitrary Accuracy Scalable Rope Simulation
I am trying to simulate a rope object. The formulation I understand is an array of particles, connected by springs. These springs have very large k-values, so that the line deforms, but stretches ...
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Why do the shape of finite elements matter?
I have used FEA for a couple of years now, but using it and using it correctly are two different things, safety factor is not the solution to everything. I have the feeling I won't be using it right ...
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Maximizing unknown noisy function
I'm interested in maximizing a function $f(\mathbf \theta)$, where $\theta \in \mathbb R^p$.
The problem is that I don't know the analytic form of the function, or of its derivatives. The only thing ...
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What are the differences between CFD simulations and realistic ocean/atmosphere model simulations?
The field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is dedicated to solving the Navier-Stokes equations (or some simplification of them). A subset of CFD, ocean and atmospheric models numerically solve ...
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Boundary conditions in fluid simulation
I'm working on a 2D fluid sim using vortex particles/"vortons" as described in Fluid Simulation for Video Games. Which I think is the same things as the "discrete vortex method". ...
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Fourier pseudo-spectral method and numerical dissipation
Performing a direct numerical simulation of isotropic turbulence with Fourier pseudo-spectral method (Orzag & Patterson, PRL, 1972) using FFT.
For a background of the method, which is widely used ...
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How to find Lyapunov exponent for coupled system
Answer gives a software for calculating conditional Lyapunov exponent (CLE) for coupled oscillators in chaos synchronization. However, it is hard to follow and there is no graphical output of the ...
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Is CFD used in animations / movies / art?
This is not a technical question, and is asked just out of curiosity.
Are computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations used in animation movies? (something like shallow water equations, explosion ...
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Is Discrete Exterior Calculus currently a focusing point in numerial computing world or simulation in industry,
I am just wondering if Discrete Exterior Calculus, as a new numerical method , is good at numericall solving problems in elasticity, fluids or other physical/real area.
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How to estimate the impact of small scale on large scale in fluid dynamics?
Assuming that a direct numerical simulation is performed, what is a good method for estimate the impact of small scale on large scale in fluid dynamics ? For example is it pertinent to compare two run ...
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How to solve the stiff equation in this Restricted Three Body Problem numerically?
I've come across a stiff equation in solving the Circular Restricted Three Body Problem.
[An object is moving considering the effect of the gravitational forces caused by two gravitational sources ...
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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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Efficient Gravitational Field Implementation
I asked a similar question on physics.stackexchange, being ignorant about this website.
I am basically looking for an efficient way to implement gravitational fields.
I have a huge 2D space, with ...
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Removing non-determinism from molecular dynamics code
I've been looking through the other answers, and I haven't found a good answer yet. I'll describe the simulation I am running, and then the problems. The program simulates particles undergoing ...
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Representing charges in computer programming
I'm preparing for a thesis in computer science on calculations based on concepts from Neuroelectrodynamics.
In short this theory states, that information transfer is not done by spike time coding, ...
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Finite-size effects in molecular dynamics simulation
I will be blunt: this is an old exam question of a course that covers Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations.
Explain how to determine the severity of finite-size effects.
My ...
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Feasibility and software for acoustic simulation
I'm looking at doing a finite-element simulation of air flow essentially for the purposes of approximating the response to an external audio impulse of a smallish (~10-30 cm scale), stationary 3D-...
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How to handle large numbers of output data sets from a simulation/sensitivity analysis?
Somewhat related, but I think the question is distinct enough to justify a separate question.
As a bit of background, I come from a observational/statistical Epidemiology background, working with ...
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Is a complete bacteria simulation with an exascale supercomputer possible?
Will it be possible to simulate a complete (at least simple) bacteria atom by atom on an exascale supercomputer? or is it possible already today with the largest systems?
Here, I've read that ...
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What is the scaling or order of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations?
Often in computational science, we talk about the scaling or order of a particular method ($\mathcal{O}(N)$, $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$, $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$, etc.).
I am having a really difficult time ...
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How to do co-simulation with two FMU models
I have two FMU developed with different simulation tools. I would like to connect them through some variables and run a co-simulation with an open source tool as OpenModelica. This co-simulation has ...
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Simulating advection over a network of 1D pipes
I am trying to create a simulation to help visualize how different chemical components flow through a network of pipes with associated valves, pumps, and chemical inputs. In this simulation, the pipes ...
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Implementing the pressure correction method using finite elements
Ok so I am nearing the completion of my finite element Navier-Stokes solver that uses the $\theta$-method for time stepping and the pressure correction method for the pressure. I am following the ...
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Lagrange Multipliers in Multi-body Finite Element Code
I'm working on a Multibody dynamics code using the finite element method to simulate the behaviour of flexible beams (using this paper if anyone is interested/ it is relevant). I'd like to model ...
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Is there a way to reduce aberration in computations of planets' trajectories?
I don't think the title is very accurate , sorry for that.
I simulate bodies in space using two timestep:
the TIMESTEP is the Δt wich I use to make the calculation
and XTIME is the number of times ...
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Monte Carlo simulation of 3D X-Y model
I need to compute the helicity modulus as a function of temperature for a three-dimensional X-Y model (see N.K. Kultanov, Yu.E. Lozovik, "The critical behavior of the 3D X-Y model and its relation ...
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What kind of a researcher am I?
So far, I've worked a bit in modeling, simulations and simple lab experiments, and I've really enjoyed all three research methods to approach a single research question. I can write tricky (in terms ...
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Is saying “math modeling and numerical simulation” wordy and redundant?
I'm describing some work on my website, and I'm wondering if my math modeling and computer simulation work is described ok: I say
math modeling and numerical simulation.
Should I say "...
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What do C, C++ and Java have that Fortran 2003 don't? [closed]
As you may know, Fortran is widely and longly (?) used in science. I've heard a lot of people saying that we natural scientists should all migrate to C++ or Java. I've seen people increasingly ...
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Package for determining power output of windmill shapes?
I'm looking for the best package for doing the following: building a 3D model (or loading externally) of a non-standard windmill shape, simulating an airflow over the model, and determining the ...
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Monte Carlo estimation of Pi with Buffon's needle
Is there a way of estimating Pi with the Buffon's method without assuming Pi known?
To be more precise: in a Monte Carlo simulation of the experiment invented by Buffon I would (ideally) generate 2 ...
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index representation of the diamond lattice
For a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of solids that crystallize in the diamond lattice structure, I need some efficient representation of the diamond lattice as integer(s), to store it in some array-...
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Are there any QM macromolecule simulation methods that can use an electron density map as input?
I am not an xray crystallographer, but from what I've heard there's often a good deal of guess work and intuition involved in the process of fitting a ball-and-stick molecular model to a crystal-...
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Stabilization of solution to one-dimensional system of PDE
I am trying to solve numerically next PDE system:
$$\frac{\partial c}{\partial t}=\epsilon\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(\frac{\partial c}{\partial x}+\rho\frac{\partial \varphi}{\partial x}+\frac{vc}{1-...
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Help understanding and implementing fast multipole method for N-body
I've been trying to understand the Fast Multipole Method but not really getting anywhere.
It seems like the fastest mainstream N-body simulation algorithm, and I would like to implement it in an ...
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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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Sound Waves Simulation in 3D Environment
I want to do a simulation of sound waves including wave propagation, absorption, and reflection in 3D space.
I did some research and I found this question in stackoverflow but it talks about ...
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What are the governing equations solved in coupled atmosphere-ocean models?
In (hydrostatic) atmospheric general circulation models, for example the so-calle Primitive Equations, consisting of the horizontal momentum equation, the hydrostatic balance, the continuity equation, ...
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How does GAMG in OpenFOAM really work?
I use OpenFOAM for CFD simulations. A very popular preconditioner is GAMG which needs a low number of iterations per a time step in SIMPLE or PISO solvers that are used to simulate the fluid flow.
I ...
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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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Finding the correct Molecular Dynamics library
I just started working on some Biophysics research, and I was looking around for a good MD library to use. There is one right now at the university set up in C, with openMC parallelization, but the ...
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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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Can other running processes harm the performance of my simulation?
I don't have an high-end machine on which run my simulation (Python + C extensions, based on numpy for calculations)
Thus I intend to run the program on my PC, for several hours. I won't use the ...
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Numerical simulation of particle in magnetic field
I'm interesting in numerically simulating (with my own code, not an off-the-shelf package) the motion of a single electrically charged particle in a magnetic field. The field will vary in time and ...
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Solve implicit ODE numerically in orbit simulation
I'm trying to plot the orbit of a compact binary star system where general relativistic effects become important. I'm using post-Newtonian approximation and I want to solve the orbit numerically based ...
