Accelerating N-Body Simulation of Self-Gravitating Systems with Limited First-Order Post-Newtonian Approximation

Accelerating N-Body Simulation of Self-Gravitating Systems with Limited First-Order Post-Newtonian Approximation

Year:    2019

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 25 (2019), Iss. 1 : pp. 68–83

Abstract

In this study, an N-body simulation code was developed for self-gravitating systems with a limited first-order post-Newtonian approximation. The code was applied to a special case in which the system consists of one massive object and many low-mass objects. Therefore, the behavior of stars around the massive black hole could be analyzed. A graphics processing unit (GPU) was used to accelerate the code execution, and it could be accelerated by several tens of times compared to a single-core CPU for N ≃104 objects.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2017-0119

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 25 (2019), Iss. 1 : pp. 68–83

Published online:    2019-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    16

Keywords:    Particle simulations N-body simulations general relativity GPGPU.