Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

A new class of accurate, mesh-free hydrodynamic simulation methods

PF Hopkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison
with moving-mesh, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and stationary (non-moving) …

E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh

V Springel - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian
smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a …

The Arepo public code release

R Weinberger, V Springel… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh
simulation code A repo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics …

PLUTO: a numerical code for computational astrophysics

A Mignone, G Bodo, S Massaglia… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2, and 3
spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multiphysics …

CRPropa 3—a public astrophysical simulation framework for propagating extraterrestrial ultra-high energy particles

RA Batista, A Dundovic, M Erdmann… - … of Cosmology and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the simulation framework CRPropa version 3 designed for efficient development
of astrophysical predictions for ultra-high energy particles. Users can assemble modules of …

Magnetohydrodynamical modeling of star-disk formation: from isolated spherical collapse towards incorporation of external dynamics

M Kuffmeier - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The formation of protostars and their disks has been understood as the result of the
gravitational collapse phase of an accumulation of dense gas that determines the mass …

The PLUTO code for adaptive mesh computations in astrophysical fluid dynamics

A Mignone, C Zanni, P Tzeferacos… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the
PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic …

Cusp-core transformations in dwarf galaxies: observational predictions

R Teyssier, A Pontzen, Y Dubois… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The presence of a dark matter core in the central kiloparsec of many dwarf galaxies has
been a long-standing problem in galaxy formation theories based on the standard cold dark …

Athena: a new code for astrophysical MHD

JM Stone, TA Gardiner, P Teuben… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has
been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It …