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Shock wave refraction at a sharp density interface is a classical problem in hydrodynamics. Presently, we investigate the strongly planar refraction of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shock wave at an inclined density interface. A magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Fang Chen , Vincent Wheatley , Ravi Samtaney

In this paper we show how the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be written in conservation form with the positivity of the dissipation guaranteed. We call the resulting algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

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

One of the most important predictions in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is that in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\textbf{b}_{0}$ a transition from weak to strong wave turbulence should occur when going from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Romain Meyrand , Sebastien Galtier , Khurom H. Kiyani

Shock waves are simulated passing through the Alfv\'en-acoustic equipartition layer in a stratified isothermal magneto-atmosphere. The recent ray-theoretic calculations of N\'u\~nez (2019) predicted smoothing of the shock through this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Jamon D. Pennicott , Paul S. Cally

In the case of hyperbolic conservation laws, high-order methods, such as the classical DG method, experience the phenomenon of unwanted high-frequency oscillations in the vicinity of a shock. Shock-capturing methods such as artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sai Shruthi Srinivasan , Siva Nadarajah

In partially ionised plasmas, the magnetic field can become decoupled from the neutral gas and diffuse through it in a process known as ambipolar diffusion. Although ambipolar diffusion has been implemented in several grid codes, we here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Ben A. Ayliffe

We analyse the performance of twelve different implementations of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) using seven tests designed to isolate key hydrodynamic elements of cosmological simulations which are known to cause the SPH algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Thacker , E. R. Tittley , F. R. Pearce , H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and simplicity. We introduce the Sphenix SPH scheme, which was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower , Joop Schaye

In this work, a localized artificial-viscosity/diffusivity method is proposed for accurately capturing discontinuities in compressible flows. There have been numerous efforts to improve the artificial diffusivity formulation in the last two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-10 Suhas S. Jain , Rahul Agrawal , Parviz Moin

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

I present a review of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), with the aim of providing a mathematically rigorous, clear derivation of the algorithms from first principles. The method of discretising a continuous field into particles using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter J. Cossins

In this paper we develop a dual-support smoothed particle hydrodynamics (DS-SPH) that naturally satisfies the conservation of momentum, angular momentum and energy when the varying smoothing length is utilized. The DS-SPH is based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Huilong Ren , Zili Dai , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Artificial viscosity is needed in Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to prevent interparticle penetration, to allow shocks to form and to damp post shock oscillations. Artificial viscosity may, however, lead to problems such as unwanted heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Magnus Selhammar

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

In this paper, we present a simple artificial damping method to enhance the robustness of total Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (TL-SPH). Specifically, an artificial damping stress based on the Kelvin-Voigt type damper with a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Chi Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Yongchuan Yu , Massoud Rezavand , Xiangyu Hu

We compare here several modern versions of SPH with a particular focus on the impact of gradient accuracy. We examine specifically an approximation to the "linearly exact" gradients (aLE) with standard SPH kernel gradients and with linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Rosswog

We report an experimental study of a magnetic liquid drop deposited on a superhydrophobic substrate and subjected to vertical vibrations in presence of a static magnetic field. It is well-known that a flattened drop of usual liquid displays…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Timothée Jamin , Yacine Djama , Jean-Claude Bacri , Eric Falcon

Magnetrons are widely used as a high-efficiency, large-power, and low-cost microwave source. This article proposes a method to improve the magnetron output characteristics based on regulating its anode current by a novel active distortion…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 S Wang , Y Zhao , X Chen , C Liu

The possibility to switch the damping rate for a one-electron oscillator is demonstrated, for an electron that oscillates along the magnetic field axis in a Penning trap. Strong axial damping can be switched on to allow this oscillation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 X. Fan , S. E. Fayer , T. G. Myers , B. A. D. Sukra , G. Nahal , G. Gabrielse