PULSEDYN -- a dynamical simulation tool for studying strongly nonlinear chains

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2019.01.025MaRDI QIDQ6100282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rahul Kashyap, Surajit Sen

Publication date 12 May 2023

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09709

zbMATH Keywords

Fermi-Pasta-Ulam systemToda latticenonlinear dynamicsrelaxation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: We introduce PULSEDYN, a particle dynamics program in $C++$, to solve many-body nonlinear systems in one dimension. PULSEDYN is designed to make computing accessible to non-specialists in the field of nonlinear dynamics of many-body systems and to ensure transparency and easy benchmarking of numerical results for an integrable model (Toda chain) and three non-integrable models (Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou, Morse and Lennard-Jones). To achieve the latter, we have made our code open source and free to distribute. We examine (i) soliton propagation and two-soliton collision in the Toda system, (ii) the recurrence phenomenon in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou system and the decay of a single localized nonlinear excitation in the same system through quasi-equilibrium to an equipartitioned state, and SW propagation in chains with (iii) Morse and (iv) Lennard-Jones potentials. We recover well known results from theory and other numerical results in the literature. We have obtained these results by setting up a parameter file interface which allows the code to be used as a black box. Therefore, we anticipate that the code would prove useful to students and non-specialists. At the same time, PULSEDYN provides scientifically accurate simulations thus making the study of rich dynamical processes broadly accessible.

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