Vlasov limit and discreteness effects in cosmological N-body simulations

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2007.03.026zbMATH Open1129.35476arXiv0805.1500OpenAlexW2053021974MaRDI QIDQ2383076FDOQ2383076

Bruno Marcos

Publication date: 5 October 2007

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the problematic of controlling the discreteness effects in cosmological N-body simulations. We describe a perturbative treatment which gives an approximation describing the evolution under self-gravity of a lattice perturbed from its equilibrium, which allows to trace the evolution of the fully discrete distribution until the time when particles approach one another ("shell-crossing"). Perturbed lattices are typical initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations and thus we can describe precisely the early time evolution of these simulations. A quantitative comparison with fluid Lagrangian theory permits to study discreteness effects in the linear regime of the simulations. We show finally some work in progress about quantifying discreteness effects in the non-perturbative (highly non-linear) regime of cosmological N-body simulations by evolving different discretizations of the same continuous density field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1500

zbMATH Keywords

Vlasov-Poisson systemlinearized gravityfluid Lagrangian theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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