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Expansion techniques for collisionless stellar dynamical simulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

Yohai Meiron*
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, Beijing 100871, China email: ymeiron@pku.edu.cn
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Abstract

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We present ETICS, a collisionless N-body code based on two kinds of series expansions of the Poisson equation, implemented for graphics processing units (GPUs). The code is publicly available and can be used as a standalone program or as a library (an AMUSE plugin is included). One of the two expansion methods available is the self-consistent field (SCF) method, which is a Fourier-like expansion of the density field in some basis set; the other is the multipole expansion (MEX) method, which is a Taylor-like expansion of the Green's function. MEX, which has been advocated in the past, has not gained as much popularity as SCF. Both are particle-field methods and optimized for collisionless galactic dynamics, but while SCF is a “pure” expansion, MEX is an expansion in just the angular part; thus, MEX is capable of capturing radial structure easily, while SCF needs a large number of radial terms.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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