Lab Note: High-Fidelity Simulation Benchmarks

Status: Ongoing Date: January 2026

Overview

Testing Hesva simulation engine across various physics scenarios to establish accuracy-performance baselines. Goal is to identify which fidelity tradeoffs are acceptable for research applications.

Test Scenarios

Rigid Body Dynamics

• Accuracy: 99.7% match with analytical solutions
• Performance: 10,000 bodies at 60Hz on single GPU

Fluid Dynamics

• Accuracy: Acceptable for macro-scale phenomena
• Performance: 1000x faster than real-time for low-Reynolds flows
• Limitation: Turbulence modeling remains approximate

Multi-Agent Interactions

• Accuracy: Good agreement with empirical data for up to 1000 agents
• Performance: Scales linearly to 100,000 agents
• Limitation: Behavioral complexity limited by computational budget

Key Finding

Sweet spot exists at ~1000x real-time speed with 95% accuracy for most research applications. Higher fidelity available but rarely needed.

Next Steps

Characterize accuracy degradation patterns. Develop adaptive fidelity selection based on research needs.

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Detailed data available in project repository.