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The numerical convergence of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) can be severely restricted by random force errors induced by particle disorder, especially in shear flows, which are ubiquitous in astrophysics. The increase in the number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Walter Dehnen , Hossam Aly

We present a set of new smoothing kernels for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) that improve the convergence of the method without any additional computational cost. These kernels are generated through a linear combination of other SPH…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Robert Wissing , Thomas R. Quinn , Ben Keller , James Wadsley , Sijing Shen

The problem of consistency of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has demanded considerable attention in the past few years due to the ever increasing number of applications of the method in many areas of science and engineering. A loss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Jaime Klapp , Otto Rendón , Carlos A. Vargas , Franklin Peña-Polo

In smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, the particle-based approximations are implemented via kernel functions, and the evaluation of performance involves two key criteria: numerical accuracy and computational efficiency. In the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhentong Wang , Chi Zhang , Oskar J. Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

The smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique is a numerical method for solving gas-dynamical problems. It has been applied to simulate the evolution of a wide variety of astrophysical systems. The method has a second-order accuracy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín , Kevin Ebinger

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

The error of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) using kernel for particle-based approximation mainly comes from smoothing and integration errors. The choice of kernels has a significant impact on the numerical accuracy, stability and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Zhentong Wang , Bo Zhang , Oskar J. Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

Basic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) models exhibit excessive, numerical dissipation in the simulation of water wave propagation. This can be remedied using higher-order approaches such as kernel gradient correction, which introduce…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Lennart Justin Schulze , Vito Zago , Giuseppe Bilotta , Robert Anthony Dalrymple

We introduce adaptive particle refinement for compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). SPH calculations have the natural advantage that resolution follows mass, but this is not always optimal. Our implementation allows the user…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rebecca Nealon , Daniel Price

We reconsider randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices such as Laplacian and kernel matrices that arise in data analysis and machine learning applications. Our main results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Alex Gittens , Michael W. Mahoney

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

We describe novel subgradient methods for a broad class of matrix optimization problems involving nuclear norm regularization. Unlike existing approaches, our method executes very cheap iterations by combining low-rank stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Haim Avron , Satyen Kale , Shiva Kasiviswanathan , Vikas Sindhwani

We present and test a new, special-relativistic formulation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). Our approach benefits from several improvements with respect to earlier relativistic SPH formulations. It is self-consistently derived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Rosswog

We provide improved error bounds for kernel-based numerical differentiation in terms of growth functions when kernels are of a finite smoothness, such as polyharmonic splines, thin plate splines or Wendland kernels. In contrast to existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Oleg Davydov

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

We introduce a modified SPH approach that is based on discretising the particle density instead of the mass density. This approach makes it possible to use SPH particles with very different masses to simulate multi-phase flows with large…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Frank Ott , Erik Schnetter

We seek to accelerate and increase the size of simulations for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) by using multiple resolutions in the spatial discretization of the equations governing the time evolution of systems displaying two-way…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Wei Hu , Wenxiao Pan , Milad Rakhsha , Qiang Tian , Haiyan Hu , Dan Negrut

In the standard SPH method, the interaction between two particles might be not pairwise when the support domain varies, which can result in a reduction of accuracy. To deal with this problem, a modified SPH approach is presented in this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Zili Dai , Huilong Ren , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

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

We derive a new discretisation method for first order PDEs of arbitrary spatial dimension, which is based upon a meshfree spatial approximation. This spatial approximation is similar to the SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Tobias Ramming , Holger Wendland
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