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Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian SPH technique, or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a Cartesian mesh with adaptive mesh refinement. Both of these methods have disadvantages that negatively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Volker Springel

Numerous formulations of finite volume schemes for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations exist, but in the majority of cases they have been developed for structured and stationary meshes. In many applications, more flexible mesh geometries…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Diego Muñoz , Volker Springel , Robert Marcus , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Numerical simulations of the air in the atmosphere and water in the oceans are essential for numerical weather prediction. The state-of-the-art for performing these fluid simulations relies on an Eulerian viewpoint, in which the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Philip Caplan , Otis Milliken , Toby Pouler , Zeyi Tong , Col McDermott , Sam Millay

We have generalized a method for the numerical solution of hyperbolic systems of equations using a dynamic Voronoi tessellation of the computational domain. The Voronoi tessellation is used to generate moving computational meshes for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Paul C. Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen

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

In this paper, we review the computational aspects of a multiscale dissipative particle dynamics model for complex fluid simulations based on the feature-rich geometry of the Voronoi tessellation. The geometrical features of the model are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

The fluid flow transport and hydrodynamic problems often take the form of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. In this work we will present a new scheme of finite volume methods for solving these evolution equations. It is a family of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Mohamed Boubekeur , Imad kissami , Fayssal Benkhaldoun , Imad El Mahi

Invariant discretization schemes are derived for the one- and two-dimensional shallow-water equations with periodic boundary conditions. While originally designed for constructing invariant finite difference schemes, we extend the usage of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Alexander Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

Most approaches in Lagrangian fluid dynamics simulations proceed from the definition of particle volumes, from which discrete versions of the spatial differential operators are derived. Recently, Gallou\"et and M\'erigot [1] simultaneously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 Daniel Duque

We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison with moving-mesh, SPH, and stationary (non-moving) grid methods. The new methods are designed to simultaneously capture advantages of both smoothed-particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins

A class of variational schemes for the hydrodynamic-electrodynamic model of lossless free-electron gas in a quasineutral background is developed for high-quality simulations of surface plasmon polaritons. The Lagrangian density of lossless…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qiang Chen , Lifei Geng , Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang

This paper contributes to the recent investigations of Lagrangian methods based on Voronoi meshes. The aim is to design a new conservative numerical scheme that can simulate complex flows and multi-phase problems with more accuracy than SPH…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Walter Boscheri

We present a new family of very high order accurate direct Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Finite Volume (FV) and Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the solution of nonlinear hyperbolic PDE systems on moving 2D Voronoi meshes that…

Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Flavio A. C. Martins , Alexander van Zuijlen , Carlos J. Simao Ferreira

We propose a new curl-free and thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme on Voronoi grids to solve compressible heat conducting flows written in first-order hyperbolic form. The approach is based on the definition of compatible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Walter Boscheri , Firas Dhaouadi

We present a new approach to Eulerian computational fluid dynamics that is designed to work at high Mach numbers encountered in astrophysical hydrodynamic simulations. The Eulerian fluid conservation equations are solved in an adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hy Trac , Ue-Li Pen

In this work, we use a moving Voronoi and sharp interface approach for simulating two-phase flows. At every time step, the mesh is generated anew from Voronoi seeds that behave as material points. The paper is a continuation of our previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Walter Boscheri

Voronoi grids have been successfully used to represent density structures of gas in astronomical hydrodynamics simulations. While some codes are explicitly built around using a Voronoi grid, others, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-03 Maya A. Petkova , Guillaume Laibe , Ian A. Bonnell

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

In the field of fluid numerical analysis, there has been a long-standing problem: lacking of a rigorous mathematical tool to map from a continuous flow field to discrete vortex particles, hurdling the Lagrangian particles from inheriting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Shiying Xiong , Xingzhe He , Yunjin Tong , Yitong Deng , Bo Zhu
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