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We study the consistency and convergence of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as a function of the interpolation parameters, namely the number of particles $N$, the number of neighbors $n$, and the smoothing length $h$, using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ruslan Gabbasov , Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Fidel Cruz , J. Klapp , J. M. Ramírez-Velasquez

In this paper we present solutions to three short comings of Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) encountered in previous work when applying it to Giant Impacts. First we introduce a novel method to obtain accurate SPH representations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Christian Reinhardt , Joachim Stadel

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

Particle methods play an important role in the study of a wide variety of astrophysical fluid dynamics problems. The different methods currently in use are all variants of the so-called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic A. Rasio

In this work we will identify a novel relation between Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and explicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using a coarse-graining method from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD). While the current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

Simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique typically include numerical viscosity to model shocks and maintain particle order on the kernel scale. This numerical viscosity is composed of linear and quadratic terms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Cheng Chen , C. J. Nixon

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

We present a detailed comparison between the well-known SPH code GADGET and the new moving-mesh code AREPO on a number of hydrodynamical test problems. Through a variety of numerical experiments we establish a clear link between test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Debora Sijacki , Mark Vogelsberger , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We describe a version of an algorithm for evolving self-gravitating collections of particles that should be nearly ideal for parallel architectures. Our method is derived from the ``self-consistent field'' (SCF) approach suggested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Lars Hernquist , Steinn Sigurdsson , Greg L. Bryan

When the effects of relative motion at the solid object interfaces are not negligible, the contact method is required in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method to prevent virtual shear and tensile stresses. However, there is still…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-06 Wenbin Liu , Zhuoping Duan , Yan Liu , Fenglei Huang

We introduce the cosmological HYPER code based on an innovative hydro-particle-mesh (HPM) algorithm for efficient and rapid simulations of gas and dark matter. For the HPM algorithm, we update the approach of Gnedin & Hui (1998) to expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yizhou He , Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junfeng Wang , Chunlei Liang , Mark S. Miesch

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

We have carried out a hydrodynamical code comparison study of interacting multiphase fluids. The two commonly used techniques of grid and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) show striking differences in their ability to model processes…

This review discusses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in the astrophysical context, with a focus on inviscid gas dynamics. The particle-based SPH technique allows an intuitive and simple formulation of hydrodynamics that has excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

This paper presents a novel method for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with thin-walled structures. Inspired by the direct forcing immersed boundary method, this method employs a moving least square method to guarantee the smoothness…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-10 ZhuoLin Wang , Zichao Jiang , Yi Zhang , Gengchao Yang , Trevor Hocksun Kwan , Yuhui Chen , Qinghe Yao

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

We describe a strategy for code modernisation of Gadget, a widely used community code for computational astrophysics. The focus of this work is on node-level performance optimisation, targeting current multi/many-core IntelR architectures.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Fabio Baruffa , Luigi Iapichino , Nicolay J. Hammer , Vasileios Karakasis

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White