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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular numerical technique developed for simulating complex fluid flows. Among its key ingredients is the use of nonlocal integral relaxations to local differentiations. Mathematical analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian

Particle-based boundary representations are frequently used in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) due to their simple integration into fluid solvers. Commonly, incompressible fluid solvers estimate the current density and corresponding…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rustam Akhunov , Andreas Kolb

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

This paper proposes and validates two new particle regularization techniques for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method to improve its stability and accuracy for free surface flow simulations. We introduce a general form…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-05 Mojtaba Jandaghian , Herman Musumari Siaben , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

The evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) is widely used to assess the performance of numerical methods. We employ this instability to test both the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the meshless finite mass (MFM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Milena Valentini , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag

Recently, there has been a significant level of discussion of the correct treatment of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the astrophysical community. This discussion relies largely on how the KHI test is posed and analyzed. We pose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Colin P. McNally , Wladimir Lyra , Jean-Claude Passy

Tensile instability, often observed in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), is a numerical artifact that manifests itself by unphysical clustering or separation of particles. The instability originates in estimating the derivatives of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Saptarshi Kumar Lahiri , Kanishka Bhattacharya , Amit Shaw , L S Ramachandra

Density discontinuities cannot be precisely modelled in standard formulations of smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) because the density field is defined smoothly as a kernel-weighted sum of neighbouring particle masses. This is a…

The numerical accuracy of particle-based approximations in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is significantly affected by the spatial uniformity of particle distributions, especially for second-order derivatives. This study aims to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhonghua Qiao , Yifan Wei

The use of adaptive spatial resolution to simulate flows of practical interest using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is of considerable importance. Recently, Muta and Ramachandran [1] have proposed an efficient adaptive SPH method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Asmelash Haftu , Abhinav Muta , Prabhu Ramachandran

Particle methods play an important role in the study of a wide variety of astrophysical fluid dynamics problems. The different methods currently in use are all variants of the so-called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic A. Rasio

In this paper we show how the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be written in conservation form with the positivity of the dissipation guaranteed. We call the resulting algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

We study the convergence properties of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) using numerical tests and simple analytic considerations. Our analysis shows that formal numerical convergence is possible in SPH only in the joint limit $N…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Qirong Zhu , Lars Hernquist , Yuexing Li

The accuracy of meshless methods like Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is highly dependent on the quality of the particle distribution. Existing particle initialization techniques often struggle to simultaneously achieve adaptive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran

We present a new approach to simulating mixtures of gas and dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We show how the two-fluid equations can be rewritten to describe a single-fluid 'mixture' moving with the barycentric velocity, with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Daniel J. Price , Guillaume Laibe

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

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

Computational fluid dynamics is a crucial tool to theoretically explore the cosmos. In the last decade, we have seen a substantial methodological diversification with a number of cross-fertilizations between originally different methods.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Stephan Rosswog

The weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is known to suffer from the pressure oscillation, which would undermine the simulation stability and accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a generalized density dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-30 Bo Xue Zheng , Zhi Wen Cai , Pei Dong Zhao , Xiao Yang Xu , Tak Shing Chan , Peng Yu

Modulating the number of particles in a region is key to accurately capturing the nuances in compressible flows with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). This paper presents a volume-based adaptive refinement and derefinement procedure,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-08 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran