articleJan 1, 2005Closed access

The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2

MPMargarita PetkovaVSVolker Springel

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Abstract

Cosmological simulations play an ever more important role in theoretical studies of the structure formation process in the Universe. Without numerical simulations, the � cold dark matter (CDM) model may arguably not have developed into the leading theoretical

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    Margarita PetkovaCorresponding

    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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    Volker Springel

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  • Physics
  • Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
  • Multipole expansion
  • Massively parallel
  • Spherical harmonics
  • Domain decomposition methods
  • Statistical physics
  • Algorithm
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  • Affordable and clean energy
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