Direct Calculation of Self-Gravitational Force for Infinitesimally Thin Gaseous Disks Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement
arXiv:2001.02765 · doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab397b
Abstract
Yen et al. (2012) advanced a direct approach for the calculation of self-gravitational force to second order accuracy based on uniform grid discretization. This method improves the accuracy of N-body calculation by using exact integration of kernel functions and employing the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to reduce complexity of computation to nearly linear. This direct approach is free of artificial boundary conditions, however, the applicability is limited by the uniform discretization of grids. We report here an advancement in the direct method with the implementation of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and maintaining second-order accuracy, which breaks the barrier set by uniform grid discretization. The adoption of graphic process units (GPUs) can significantly speed up the computation and make application of this method possible to astrophysical systems of gaseous disk galaxies and protoplanetary disks.
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