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The hydrodynamic interactions of a suspension of self-propelled particles are studied using a direct numerical simulation method which simultaneously solves for the host fluid and the swimming particles. A modified version of the "Smoothed…
The weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (WCSPH) method has been employed to simulate various physical phenomena involving fluids and solids. Various methods have been proposed to implement the solid wall, inlet/outlet, and…
Stellar collisions can occur frequently in dense cluster environments, and play a crucial role in producing exotic phenomena from blue stragglers in globular clusters to high-energy transients in galactic nuclei. Successive collisions and…
We present the simulation of 3D time dependent flow of rotating ideal gas falling into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is shown that also in the 3D case steady shocks are formed in a wide range of parameters (initial angular momentum and…
We present a new framework for radiation hydrodynamics simulations. Gas dynamics is modelled by the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, whereas radiation transfer is simulated via a time-dependent Monte-Carlo approach that traces…
In this paper a simple, robust, and general purpose approach to implement the Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (ISPH) method is proposed. This approach is well suited for implementation on CPUs and GPUs. The method is…
We describe similarity solutions that characterize the collapse of collisional gas onto scalefree perturbations in an Einstein-de Sitter universe. We consider the effects of radiative cooling and derive self-similar solutions under the…
A unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework is proposed to simulate interaction dynamics involving thin shells modeled by a reduced-dimensional, single-layer particle discretization, as opposed to full-dimensional SPH solids.…
This review discusses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in the astrophysical context, with a focus on inviscid gas dynamics. The particle-based SPH technique allows an intuitive and simple formulation of hydrodynamics that has excellent…
There are some traces of the existence of internal ocean in some icy moons, such as the vapor plumes of Europa and Enceladus. This implies a region of liquid water beneath the surface ice shell. Since liquid water would be essential for the…
Giant impacts (GIs) are common in the late stage of planet formation. The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is widely used for simulating the outcome of such violent collisions, one prominent example being the formation of the…
Recent simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs, carried out using a three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code by Meru and Bate, have been interpreted as implying that three-dimensional global discs fragment much…
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is omnipresent in modern engineering and scientific disciplines. SPH is a class of Lagrangian schemes that discretize fluid dynamics via finite material points that are tracked through the evolving…
We consider the impact fragmentation of two spherical solid bodies sensitive to strain rate in a three-dimensional (3D) setting. We use both dimensional analysis and numerical simulations by smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method to…
Simulating physical problems involving multi-time scale coupling is challenging due to the need of solving these multi-time scale processes simultaneously. In response to this challenge, this paper proposed an explicit multi-time step…
In this work, we will present evidence for the incompatibility of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods and eddy viscosity models. Taking a coarse-graining perspective, we physically argue that SPH methods operate intrinsically as…
We compare the results for a set of hydrodynamical tests performed with the AMR finite volume code, MG and the SPH code, SEREN. The test suite includes shock tube tests, with and without cooling, the non-linear thin-shell instability and…
In this paper we discuss the treatment of discontinuities in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. In particular we discuss the difference between integral and differential representations of the fluid equations in an SPH…
The formation mechanism of planetesimals in protoplanetary discs is hotly debated. Currently, the favoured model involves the accumulation of meter-sized objects within a turbulent disc, followed by a phase of gravitational instability. At…
We present results from a series of cosmological SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations coupled with the P3M (Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh) solver for the gravitational force. The simulations are designed to predict the…