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We present an implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in an adaptive-mesh PPPM algorithm. The code evolves a mixture of purely gravitational particles and gas particles. The code retains the desirable properties of previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas , F. R. Pearce

We present a practical guide to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (\SPH) and its application to astrophysical problems. Although remarkably robust, \SPH\ must be used with care if the results are to be meaningful since the accuracy of \SPH\…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Martin , F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas

We describe and demonstrate a method for increasing the resolution locally in a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) simulation, by splitting particles. We show that in simulations of self-gravitating collapse (of the sort which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth

Many astrophysical and terrestrial scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Although the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Domingo García-Senz , Robert Wissing , Rubén M. Cabezón , Eda Vurgun , Manuel Linares

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We test and improve the numerical schemes in our smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code for cosmological simulations, including the pressure-entropy formulation (PESPH), a time-dependent artificial viscosity, a refined timestep…

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 present and test a general-purpose code, called PPASPH, for evolving self-gravitating fluids in astrophysics, both with and without a collisionless component. In PPASPH, hydrodynamical properties are computed by using the SPH (Smoothed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arturo Serna , Jean-Michel Alimi , Jean-Pierre Chieze

We present the methodology and performance of the new Lagrangian hydrodynamics code MAGMA2, a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code that benefits from a number of non-standard enhancements. By default it uses high-order smoothing kernels and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Stephan Rosswog

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics implementation SPHGal, which combines some recently proposed improvements in GADGET. This includes a pressure-entropy formulation with a Wendland kernel, a higher order estimate of velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Chia-Yu Hu , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Benjamin P. Moster , Ludwig Oser

In this paper, we develop a new method for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). To describe MHD shocks accurately, the Godunov method is applied to SPH instead of artificial dissipation terms. In the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present a new methodology for simulating self-gravitating general-relativistic fluids. In our approach the fluid is modelled by means of Lagrangian particles in the framework of a general-relativistic (GR) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 S. Rosswog , P. Diener

Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

In this paper we discuss recent applications of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method to the simulation of supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium, as well as giving an update on recent algorithmic developments in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-26 Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath

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

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been increasingly used to study fluid problems in recent years; but its computational cost can be high if high resolution is required. In this study, an adaptive resolution method based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Price

The Athena MHD code has been extended to integrates the motion of particles coupled with the gas via aerodynamic drag, in order to study the dynamics of gas and solids in protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetesimals. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a well-established approach to model fluids in astrophysical problems, thanks to its geometric flexibility and ability to automatically adjust the spatial resolution to the clumping of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Hess , V. Springel