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How to Simulate Billiards and Similar Systems | | Boris D. Lubachevsky
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26 Mar 2005 | | Journal: | Journal of Computational Physics, v.94 n.2, p.255-283, June 1991 | | Subject: | Materials Science; Data Structures and Algorithms; Dynamical Systems | cond-mat.mtrl-sci cs.DS math.DS | | Abstract: | An N-component continuous-time dynamic system is considered whose components evolve autonomously all the time except for in discrete asynchronous instances of pairwise interactions. Examples include chaotically colliding billiard balls and combat models. A new efficient serial event-driven algorithm is described for simulating such systems. Rather than maintaining and updating the global state of the system, the algorithm tries to examine only essential events, i.e., component interactions. The events are processed in a non-decreasing order of time; new interactions are scheduled on the basis of the examined interactions using preintegrated equations of the evolutions of the components. If the components are distributed uniformly enough in the evolution space, so that this space can be subdivided into small sectors such that only O(1) sectors and O(1)$components are in the neighborhood of a sector, then the algorithm spends time O (log N) for processing an event which is the asymptotical minimum. The algorithm uses a simple strategy for handling data: only two states are maintained for each simulated component. Fast data access in this strategy assures the practical efficiency of the algorithm. It works noticeably faster than other algorithms proposed for this model. Key phrases: collision detection, dense packing, molecular dynamics, hard spheres, granular flow | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0503627 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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