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Hydrodynamical simulations are increasingly able to accurately model physical systems on stellar, galactic, and cosmological scales, however, the utility of these simulations is often limited by our ability to directly compare them with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Cameron Hummels , Britton Smith , Devin Silvia

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 structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

We present three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the dependence of the accretion rate on the disc thickness around an equal-mass, circular black hole binary system. We find that for thick/hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Enrico Ragusa , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

In this work we have used for the first time pseudo-spectral methods to perform numerical simulations of spherically symmetric black hole formations on a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe. With these methods, the differential equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Albert Escrivà

We present an implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in an adaptive-mesh PPPM algorithm. The code evolves a mixture of purely gravitational particles and gas particles. The code retains the desirable properties of previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas , F. R. Pearce

In numerical simulations, artificial terms are applied to the evolution equations for stability. To prove their validity, these terms are thoroughly tested in test problems where the results are well known. However, they are seldom tested…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-26 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price , Terrence S. Tricco

We present a 'two-fluid' implementation of dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in the test particle limit. The scheme is able to handle both short and long stopping times and reproduces the short friction time limit, which is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Richard A. Booth , Debora Sijacki , Cathie J. Clarke

We present a new methodology for simulating self-gravitating general-relativistic fluids. In our approach the fluid is modelled by means of Lagrangian particles in the framework of a general-relativistic (GR) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 S. Rosswog , P. Diener

An algorithm for creating synthetic telescope images of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) density fields is presented, which utilises the adaptive nature of the SPH formalism in full. The imaging process uses Monte Carlo Radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

We describe a new implementation of the one-fluid method in the SPH code Phantom to simulate the dynamics of dust grains in gas protoplanetary discs. We revise and extend previously developed algorithms by computing the evolution of a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Giulia Ballabio , Giovanni Dipierro , Benedetta Veronesi , Giuseppe Lodato , Mark Hutchison , Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

We present a new, simple, fast algorithm to numerically evolve disks of inelastically colliding particles surrounding a central star. Our algorithm adds negligible computational cost to the fastest existing collisionless N-body codes, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoram Lithwick , Eugene Chiang

The separation of different kind of plastic particles is required in the process of waste recycling. For the separation drum processes passed through by a liquid are applicable. Thereby the separation is based on the principle that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-15 Darius Markauskas , Harald Kruggel-Emden , Viktor Scherer

Large-scale sky surveys require companion large volume simulated mock catalogs. To ensure precision cosmology studies are unbiased, the correlations in these mocks between galaxy properties and their large-scale environments must be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

In this paper we report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, including the development of a new primitive inversion scheme and a hybrid implicit-explicit solver with a more general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chris Fragile , Ally Olejar , Peter Anninos

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in accretion flows around six different sink particles in a global star formation simulation. Using the adaptive mesh refinement capabilities of \ramses, the vicinity of the sinks is resolved with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Michael Kuffmeier , Farrukh Nauman

The applicability of the highly idealized secondary infall model to `realistic' initial conditions is investigated. The collapse of proto-halos seeded by $3\sigma$ density perturbations to an Einstein--de Sitter universe is studied here for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Saleem Zaroubi , Avi Naim , Yehuda Hoffman

Discrete particle simulations have become the standard in science and industrial applications exploring the properties of particulate systems. Most of such simulations rely on the concept of interacting spherical particles to describe the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Igor Ostanin , Vasileios Angelidakis , Timo Plath , Sahar Pourandi , Anthony Thornton , Thomas Weinhart

We perform controlled N-Body/SPH simulations of disk galaxy formation by cooling a rotating gaseous mass distribution inside equilibrium cuspy spherical and triaxial dark matter halos. We systematically study the angular momentum transport…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore