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Re:Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue by evincarofautumn on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:43AM (#10702280)
This reminds me of something that’s always struck me as odd about large-scale physics simulations: using invariant spacial coordinates when doing a gravitational simulation is totally absurd. Wouldn’t precision problems be much less of an issue if you distorted space according to gravitational influence, as happens in real life?
Re:Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue by bainsfather on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @04:18AM (#10702694)
The 'resources' section of the post has 2 links, e.g. www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/e/03-547.pdf goes through several rather clever transformations of (spatial and/or time) variables to improve accuracy.