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We perform simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The instability is studied both in the linear and strongly non-linear regimes. The smooth, well-posed initial conditions of Lecoanet et…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Terrence S. Tricco

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 the problem of consistency of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is solved. A novel error analysis is developed in $n$-dimensional space using the Poisson summation formula, which enables the treatment of the kernel and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Otto Rendón , Jaime Klapp , Carlos A. Vargas , Kilver Campos

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics is reformulated in terms of the convolution of the original hydrodynamics equations, and the new evolution equations for the particles are derived. The same evolution equation of motion is also derived using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present a novel and fast application to generate glass-like initial conditions for Lagrangian hydrodynamic schemes (e.g. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)) following arbitrary density models based on weighted Voronoi tessellations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Alexander Arth , Julius Donnert , Ulrich Steinwandel , Ludwig Böss , Timo Halbesma , Martin Pütz , David Hubber , Klaus Dolag

We present results based on an implementation of the Godunov Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (GSPH), originally developed by Inutsuka (2002), in the GADGET-3 hydrodynamic code. We first review the derivation of the GSPH discretization of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Giuseppe Murante , Stefano Borgani , Riccardo Brunino , Suneg-Hoon Cha

The standard formulation of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) assumes that the local density distribution is differentiable. This assumption is used to derive the spatial derivatives of other quantities. However, this assumption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

For conventional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), obtaining the static solution of a problem is time-consuming. To address this drawback, we propose an efficient dynamic relaxation method by adding large artificial-viscosity-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yujie Zhu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

We compare two widely used Lagrangian approaches for modeling granular materials: the Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). DEM models individual particle interactions, while SPH treats granular materials…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-03 Jaekwang Kim , Hyo-Jin Kim , Hyung-Jun Park

The unavailability of accurate boundary treatment methods for compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) severely limits its ability to simulate flows in and around bodies. To this end, challenges specific to compressible flows with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran

Hydrodynamical instabilities and shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical scenarios. Therefore, an accurate numerical simulation of these phenomena is mandatory to correctly model and understand many astrophysical events, such as Supernovas,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ruben M. Cabezon , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Joana Figueira

We present a set of new smoothing kernels for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) that improve the convergence of the method without any additional computational cost. These kernels are generated through a linear combination of other SPH…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Robert Wissing , Thomas R. Quinn , Ben Keller , James Wadsley , Sijing Shen

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

In this paper, we derive the dual-support smoothed particle hydrodynamics (DS-SPH) in solid in the framework of variational principle. The tangent stiffness matrix of SPH is obtained with ease, which can be served as the basis for implicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Huilong Ren , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk , Hehua Zhu

We present pkdgrav3, a high-performance, fully parallel tree-SPH code designed for large-scale hydrodynamic simulations including self-gravity. Building upon the long development history of pkdgrav, the code combines an efficient…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Thomas Meier , Douglas Potter , Christian Reinhardt , Joachim Stadel

We review existing SPH setup methods and outline their advantages, limitations and drawbacks. We present a new method for constructing initial conditions for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, which may also be of interest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Steven Diehl , Gabriel Rockefeller , Christopher L. Fryer , David Riethmiller , Thomas S. Statler

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 provide a basic method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate liquid droplet with surface tension in three dimensions. Liquid droplet is a simple case for surface tension modeling. Surface tension works only on fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-17 Hanifa Terissa , Agra Barecasco , Christian Fredy Naa

Direct numerical simulation of subsonic turbulence with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has traditionally been hampered by zeroth-order (E0) errors, inaccurate gradient evaluations, and excessive numerical dissipation. We demonstrate…

To make relevant predictions about observable emission, hydrodynamical simulation codes must employ schemes that account for radiative losses, but the large dimensionality of accurate radiative transfer schemes is often prohibitive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 James C. Lombardi , William G. McInally , Joshua A. Faber