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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

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

We present a new hybrid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)/N-body method for modelling the collisional stellar dynamics of young clusters in a live gas background. By deriving the equations of motion from Lagrangian mechanics we obtain a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. A. Hubber , R. J. Allison , R. Smith , S. P. Goodwin

A unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework is proposed to simulate interaction dynamics involving thin shells modeled by a reduced-dimensional, single-layer particle discretization, as opposed to full-dimensional SPH solids.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Dong Wu , Shuaihao Zhang , Weiyi Kong , Xiangyu Hu

We present a quantum computing algorithm for the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. We use a normalization procedure to encode the SPH operators and domain discretization in a quantum register. We then perform the SPH summation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Rhonda Au-Yeung , Anthony J. Williams , Viv M. Kendon , Steven J. Lind

The properties of a thermally sprayed coating, such as its durability or thermal conductivity depend on its microstructure, which is in turn directly related to the particle impact process. To simulate this process we present a 3D Smoothed…

In this paper we show how a Lagrangian variational principle can be used to derive the SPMHD (smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics) equations for ideal MHD. We also consider the effect of a variable smoothing length in the SPH kernels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

This paper develops an arbitrary-positioned buffer for the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, whose generality and high efficiency are achieved through two techniques. First, with the local coordinate system established at each…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shuoguo Zhang , Yu Fan , Yaru Ren , Bin Qian , Xiangyu Hu

Simulation of the dynamics of dust-gas circumstellar discs is crucial in understanding the mechanisms of planet formation. The dynamics of small grains in the disc is stiffly coupled to the gas, while the dynamics of grown solids is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Tatiana A. Glushko , Nikolay V. Snytnikov , Valeriy N. Snytnikov

In a companion paper (Laibe & Price 2011b), we have presented an algorithm for simulating two-fluid gas and dust mixtures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). In this paper, we develop an implicit timestepping method that preserves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

We propose a particle-based method to simulate thin-film fluid that jointly facilitates aggressive surface deformation and vigorous tangential flows. We build our dynamics model from the surface tension driven Navier-Stokes equation with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-18 Mengdi Wang , Yitong Deng , Xiangxin Kong , Aditya H. Prasad , Shiying Xiong , Bo Zhu

Multiphase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used to study the jet breakup phenomena. It has been shown that this method is well capable of capturing different jet breakup characteristics. The value obtained for critical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Amirsaman Farrokhpanah , Javad Mostaghimi

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 problem of chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies is one of the most attracting and complex problems of modern astrophysics. Within the framework of the given work the standard dynamic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Berczik

Parallel implementation features of self-gravitating gas dynamics modeling on multiple GPUs are considered applying the GPU-Direct technology. The parallel algorithm for solving of the self-gravitating gas dynamics problem based on hybrid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Sergey Khrapov , Alexander Khoperskov

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

We introduce a simple and efficient algorithm for diffusion in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and apply it to the problem of chemical mixing. Based on the concept of turbulent diffusion, we link the diffusivity of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. Greif , Simon C. O. Glover , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen

The hydrodynamics of collisions and mergers of main-sequence stars is discussed in the light of recent 3-D calculations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Theoretical models for the formation of blue stragglers are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic A. Rasio

In this paper we propose a dual-time stepping scheme for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Dual-time stepping has been used in the context of other numerical methods for the simulation of incompressible fluid flows. Here we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Prabhu Ramachandran , Abhinav Muta , Ramakrishna Mokkapati

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