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Transport and mixing of gas species are of particular interest in planetary environments, where interactions among multiple species can occur within confined or porous media. In this work, we present a novel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Maggioni , Matteo Teodori , Gianfranco Magni , Michelangelo Formisano , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Francesca Altieri

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 widely used to simulate incompressible and slightly compressible fluid flows. Adaptive refinement strategies to dynamically increase the resolution of the particles to capture sharp…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-31 Abhinav Muta , Pawan Negi , Prabhu Ramachandran

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

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes need to be enhanced by dissipation mechanisms to handle shocks. Most SPH formulations rely on artificial viscosity and while this is working well in pure shocks, attention has to be payed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Stephan Rosswog

We present diffSPH, a novel open-source differentiable Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework developed entirely in PyTorch with GPU acceleration. diffSPH is designed centrally around differentiation to facilitate optimization and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-30 Rene Winchenbach , Nils Thuerey

The method of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is developped appropriately for the study of relativistic heavy ion collision processes. In order to describe the flow of a high energy but low baryon number density fluid, the entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. E. Aguiar , T. Kodama , T. Osada , Y. Hama

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

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) discretization techniques are generalized to develop a method, smoothed particle interpolation (SPI), for solving initial value problems of systems of non-hydrodynamical nature. Under this approach, SPH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Pablo Laguna

Standard formulations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) are unable to resolve mixing at fluid boundaries. We use an error and stability analysis of the generalised SPH equations of motion to prove that this is due to two distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield , O. Agertz

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

Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been demonstrated as a promising numerical solver for multiphase flow problems due to its Lagrangian nature, its application to complex channel flow may encounter additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-Yang Zhan , Zhen Chen

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

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods are advantageous in simulations of fluids in domains with free boundary. Special SPH methods have also been developed to simulate solids. However, there are situations where the matter behaves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Michal Pavelka , Václav Klika

In this paper we test a special-relativistic formulation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) that has been derived from the Lagrangian of an ideal fluid. Apart from its symmetry in the particle indices, the new formulation differs from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 S. Rosswog

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

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

Particle shifting techniques (PST) have been used to improve the accuracy of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Shifting ensures that the particles are distributed homogeneously in space. This may be performed by moving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh Adepu , Prabhu Ramachandran