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Numerical hydrodynamics: SPH vs. AMR

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The advantages and disadvantages of two approaches to astrophysical hydrodynamics, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Adaptive Mesh Refinement, are briefly discussed together with some current problems of computational hydrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0008512,
  title  = {Numerical hydrodynamics: SPH vs. AMR},
  author = {Tomek Plewa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0008512},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, LaTeX, requires newpasp.sty. To appear in H. Zinnecker and R.D. Mathieu, eds, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 200 "The Formation of Binary Stars", held in Potsdam, Germany, April 10-15 2000