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HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

In two previous papers (Price & Monaghan 2004a,b) (papers I,II) we have described an algorithm for solving the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The algorithm uses dissipative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

We present a novel implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPHS) that uses the spatial derivative of the velocity divergence as a higher order dissipation switch. Our switch -- which is second order accurate -- detects flow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield

Obtaining high-quality particle distributions for stable and accurate particle-based simulations poses significant challenges, especially for complex geometries. We introduce a preprocessing technique for 2D and 3D geometries, optimized for…

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

For conventional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), obtaining the static solution of a problem is time-consuming. To address this drawback, we propose an efficient dynamic relaxation method by adding large artificial-viscosity-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yujie Zhu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular numerical technique developed for simulating complex fluid flows. Among its key ingredients is the use of nonlocal integral relaxations to local differentiations. Mathematical analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian

The method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) has been widely studied and implemented for a large variety of problems, ranging from astrophysics to fluid dynamics and elasticity problems in solids. However, the method is known to have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Ruslan F. Gabbasov , Jaime Klapp-Escribano , Joel Suarez-Cansino , Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti

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

To simulate the dynamics of fluid with polydisperse particles on macroscale level, one has to solve hydrodynamic equations with several relaxation terms, representing momentum transfer from fluid to particles and vice versa. For small…

We have developed Remote-GRAPE, a subroutine library to use the special purpose computer GRAPE-3A. The GRAPE-3A can efficiently calculate gravitational force between particles, and construct neighbor lists. All other calculations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Naohito Nakasato , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

A new consistent, spatially adaptive, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) is presented. The method combines several attributes that have not been simultaneously satisfied by other SPH methods.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Wei Hu , Guannan Guo , Xiaozhe Hu , Dan Negrut , Zhijie Xu , Wenxiao Pan

Gadget3 is nowadays one of the most frequently used high performing parallel codes for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Recent analyses have shown t\ hat the Neighbour Search process of Gadget3 is one of the most time-consuming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Antonio Ragagnin , Nikola Tchipev , Michael Bader , Klaus Dolag , Nicolay J. Hammer

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a particle-based, Lagrangian method for fluid-flow simulations. In this work, fundamental concepts of this method are first briefly recalled. Then, the ability to accurately model granular…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 Kamil Szewc

In particle-based simulations, neighbour finding (i.e finding pairs of particles to interact within a given range) is the most time consuming part of the computation. One of the best such algorithms, which can be used for both Molecular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-18 James S. Willis , Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet , Richard G. Bower , Peter W. Draper

The use of adaptive spatial resolution to simulate flows of practical interest using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is of considerable importance. Recently, Muta and Ramachandran [1] have proposed an efficient adaptive SPH method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Asmelash Haftu , Abhinav Muta , Prabhu Ramachandran

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 smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique is a purely Lagrangian method, used in numerical simulations of fluids in astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics, among many other fields. SPH simulations with detailed physics…

Simulations based on particle methods, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), are known to be computationally demanding. While such methods have for long been executed in parallel on multi-core CPUs, in recent years the increasing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xiangyu Hu , Alberto Guarnieri