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Carlos Andrés del Valle

Publications and source records attributed to Carlos Andrés del Valle.

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arXiv2023

SPIRAL: An Efficient Algorithm for the Integration of the Equation of Rotational Motion

We introduce Spiral, a third-order integration algorithm for the rotational motion of extended bodies. It requires only one force calculation per time step, does not require quaternion normalization at each time step, and can be formulated for both leapfrog and synchronous integration schemes, making it compatible with many particle simulation codes. The stability and precision of Spiral exceed those of state-of-the-art algorithms currently used in popular DEM codes such as Yade, MercuryDPM, LIGGGHTS, PFC, and more, at only slightly higher computational cost. Also, beyond DEM, we see potential applications in all numerical simulations that involve the 3D rotation of extended bodies.

cond-mat.soft↗

arXiv2023

Motion of Spinning Particles around Black Holes

The motion of spinning particles around compact objects, for example a rotating stellar object moving around a supermassive black hole, is described by differential equations that are, in general, non-integrable. In this work, we present a computational code that integrates the equations of motion of a spinning particle moving in the equatorial plane of a spherically symmetric spacetime and gives a visual representation of its trajectory. This code is open source, freely available and modular, so that users may extend its application not only to the Schwarzschild metric, but also to other backgrounds.

gr-qc↗