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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Käpylä , Graeme R. Sarson , James F. Hollins

We describe the implementation and testing of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code that solves the equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the flux-limited diffusion (FLD) approximation. The SPH equations of radiation hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthew R. Bate

We perform simulations of giant impacts onto the young Uranus using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with over 100 million particles. This 100--1000$\times$ improvement in particle number reveals that simulations with below 10^7…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 J. A. Kegerreis , V. R. Eke , P. G. Gonnet , D. G. Korycansky , R. J. Massey , M. Schaller , L. F. A. Teodoro

The effects induced by numerical schemes and mesh geometry on the solution of two-dimensional supersonic inviscid flows are investigated in the context of the compressible Euler equations. Five different finite-difference schemes are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-13 Frederico Bolsoni Oliveira , João Luiz F. Azevedo

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

We provide a description of the SNSPH code--a parallel 3-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code implementing treecode gravity, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and flux-limited diffusion transport schemes. We provide descriptions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Fryer , G. Rockefeller , M. S. Warren

Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been demonstrated as a promising numerical solver for multiphase flow problems due to its Lagrangian nature, its application to complex channel flow may encounter additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-Yang Zhan , Zhen Chen

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is one of the most important processes in sufficiently ionized astrophysical disks. Grid-based simulations, especially those using the local shearing box approximation, provide a powerful tool to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hongping Deng , Lucio Mayer , Henrik Latter , Philip F. Hopkins , Xue-Ning Bai

We present a suite of high-resolution simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy using four different hydrodynamical codes: {\sc Gizmo}, {\sc Arepo}, {\sc Gadget}, and {\sc Ramses}. All codes adopt the same physical model which includes…

This paper puts forth two new closure models for the proper orthogonal decomposition reduced-order modeling of structurally dominated turbulent flows: the dynamic subgrid-scale model and the variational multiscale model. These models, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Zhu Wang , Imran Akhtar , Jeff Borggaard , Traian Iliescu

This paper presents a divergence cleaning formulation for the velocity in the weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme. The proposed hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning, ensures that the velocity divergence,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-01 Georgios Fourtakas , Renato Vacondio , Benedict D. Rogers

Context: Calculating stellar pulsations requires a sufficient accuracy to match the quality of the observations. Many current pulsation codes apply a second order finite-difference scheme, combined with Richardson extrapolation to reach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. R. Reese

For a single timestep, a spectral solver is known to be more accurate than its finite-difference counterpart. However, as we show in this paper, turbulence simulations using the two methods have nearly the same accuracy. In this paper, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-15 Akash Rodhiya , Shashwat Bhattacharya , Mahendra K Verma

In this paper we study decaying turbulence in fixed and rotating boxes in two dimen- sions using the particle method SPH. The boundaries are specified by boundary force particles, and the turbulence is initiated by a set of gaussian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alireza Valizadeh , Joe. J. Monaghan

While the application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for the modeling of welding processes has become increasingly popular in recent years, little is yet known about the quantitative predictive capability of this…

We describe a new implementation of the one-fluid method in the SPH code Phantom to simulate the dynamics of dust grains in gas protoplanetary discs. We revise and extend previously developed algorithms by computing the evolution of a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Giulia Ballabio , Giovanni Dipierro , Benedetta Veronesi , Giuseppe Lodato , Mark Hutchison , Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

We present a novel method of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics scheme using the Geometric Density average force expression (GDSPH). GDSPH has recently been shown to reduce the leading order errors and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Robert Wissing , Sijing Shen

We present the results from a two-day study in which we discussed various implementations of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), one of the leading methods used across a variety of areas of large-scale astrophysical simulations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Lars Hernquist , George Lake , Jun Makino , Steve McMillan , Thomas Sterling

We present a thorough numerical study on the MRI using the smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics method (SPMHD) with the geometric density average force expression (GDSPH). We perform shearing box simulations with different initial setups…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. Wissing , S. Shen , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn

We present the newly-incorporated gray radiation hydrodynamics capabilities of the FLASH code based on a radiation flux-limiter aware hydrodynamics numerical implementation designed specifically for applications in astrophysical problems.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Klaus Weide