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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

Anomalous behaviour of the excess entropy ($S_e$) and the associated scaling relationship with diffusivity are compared in liquids with very different underlying interactions but similar water-like anomalies: water (SPC/E and TIP3P models),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-04 Manish Agarwal , Murari Singh , Ruchi Sharma , Mohammad Parvez Alam , Charusita Chakravarty

It is known that the dynamics of dissipative fluids in Eulerian variables can be derived from an algebra of Leibniz brackets of observables, the metriplectic algebra, that extends the Poisson algebra of the zero viscosity limit via a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Massimo F. D. Materassi

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH_ is a mesh-free Lagrangian method renowned for modeling large deformations and free-surface flows, yet classical formulations remain confined to deterministic systems. We introduce Stochastic SPH…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mridul Tiwari , Sawan Kumar , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam , Souvik Chakraborty

We perform simulations of feedback from supernovae and black holes with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Such strong perturbations are inaccurately handled with standard time integration schemes, leading to poor energy conservation, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Fabrice Durier , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Density discontinuities cannot be precisely modelled in standard formulations of smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) because the density field is defined smoothly as a kernel-weighted sum of neighbouring particle masses. This is a…

We present REMIX, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme designed to alleviate effects that typically suppress mixing and instability growth at density discontinuities in SPH simulations. We approach this problem by directly…

We discuss differences in simulation results that arise between the use of either the thermal energy or the entropy as an independent variable in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). In this context, we derive a new version of SPH that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We present an implementation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with improved accuracy for simulations of galaxies and the large-scale structure. In particular, we combine, implement, modify and test a vast majority of SPH improvement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 A. M. Beck , G. Murante , A. Arth , R. -S. Remus , A. F. Teklu , J. M. F. Donnert , S. Planelles , M. C. Beck , P. Foerster , M. Imgrund , K. Dolag , S. Borgani

Hydrodynamical instabilities and shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical scenarios. Therefore, an accurate numerical simulation of these phenomena is mandatory to correctly model and understand many astrophysical events, such as Supernovas,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ruben M. Cabezon , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Joana Figueira

We compare the results for a set of hydrodynamical tests performed with the AMR finite volume code, MG and the SPH code, SEREN. The test suite includes shock tube tests, with and without cooling, the non-linear thin-shell instability and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. A. Hubber , S. A. E. G. Falle , S. P. Goodwin

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

The paper proposes a second-order accurate direct Eulerian generalized Riemann problem (GRP) scheme for the spherically symmetric general relativistic hydrodynamical (RHD) equations and a second-order accurate discretization for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Kailiang Wu , Huazhong Tang

In this work, we will present evidence for the incompatibility of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods and eddy viscosity models. Taking a coarse-graining perspective, we physically argue that SPH methods operate intrinsically as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Markus Wicker , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

Many entropy-conservative and entropy-stable (summarized as entropy-preserving) methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on Tadmor's theory for two-point entropy-preserving numerical fluxes and its higher-order extension via flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Marco Artiano , Hendrik Ranocha

The Harten-Lax-van Leer with contact (HLLC) scheme is known to be plagued by various forms of numerical shock instabilities. In this paper, we propose a new framework for developing shock stable, contact and shear preserving approximate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Simon Sangeeth , J. C Mandal

In this paper, the Entropically Damped Artificial Compressibility (EDAC) formulation of Clausen (2013) is used in the context of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for the simulation of incompressible fluids. Traditionally,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Prabhu Ramachandran , Kunal Puri

We study the effect of periodic but commensurate hopping modulation on a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with an additional onsite staggered imaginary potential. Such dissipative, non-Hermitian (NH) extension amply modifies the features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Surajit Mandal , Satyaki Kar

An Eulerian TVD code and a Lagrangian SPH code are used to simulate the off-axis collision of equal-mass main sequence stars in order to address the question of whether stellar mergers can produce a remnant star where the interior has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hy Trac , Alison Sills , Ue-Li Pen

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