著者

牧野 淳一郎

出版者

一般社団法人日本応用数理学会

雑誌

応用数理 (ISSN:09172270)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.4, pp.277-287, 1998-12-15

被引用文献数

1

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I overview the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) and the Barnes-Hut tree method. These algorithms evaluate mutual gravitational interaction between N particles in O(N) or O(N log N) times, respectively. I present basic algorithms as well as recent developments, such as Anderson's method of using Poisson's formula, the use of FFT, and other optimization techniques. I also summarize the current states of two algorithms. Though FMM with O(N) scaling is theoretically preferred over O(N log N) tree method, comparisons of existing implementations proved otherwise. This result is not surprizing, since the calculation cost of FMM scales as O(Np^2) where p is the order of expansion, while that of the tree method scales as O(N log Np).