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We present a full hydrodynamical investigation of a system of self-contained, interacting gas `cloudlets'. Calculations are performed using SPH, and cloudlets are allowed to collide, dissipate kinetic energy, merge and undergo local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Gittins , Cathie Clarke , Matthew Bate

We present a hydrodynamical code for cosmological simulations which uses the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) to follow the dynamics of gas component and an N-body Particle-Mesh algorithm for the evolution of collisionless component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Claudio Gheller , Ornella Pantano , Lauro Moscardini

First we present a recently developed 3D chemodynamical code for galaxy evolution from the K**2 collaboration. It follows the evolution of all components of a galaxy such as dark matter, stars, molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Spurzem , P. Berczik , G. Hensler , Ch. Theis , P. Amaro-Seoane , M. Freitag , A. Just

In this paper a new scalable hydrodynamic code GPUPEGAS (GPU-accelerated PErformance Gas Astrophysic Simulation) for simulation of interacting galaxies is proposed. The code is based on combination of Godunov method as well as on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-06 Kulikov Igor

We outline the methodology of implementing moving boundary conditions into the moving-mesh code MANGA. The motion of our boundaries is reactive to hydrodynamic and gravitational forces. We discuss the hydrodynamics of a moving boundary as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Logan J. Prust

This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical fluid flows. The code is Cartesian, can be run in 1, 2, and 3…

A cosmological multidimensional hydrodynamic code is described and tested. This code is based on modern high-resolution shock-capturing techniques. It can make use of a linear or a parabolic cell reconstruction as well as an approximate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Vicent Quilis , Jose Ma. Ibanez , Diego Saez

We present a non-iterative algorithm, FloatStepper, for coupling the motion of a rigid body and an incompressible fluid in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The purpose of the algorithm is to remove the so-called added mass…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-22 Johan Roenby , Sithik Aliyar , Henrik Bredmose

We present and test a code for two-fluid simulations of galaxy formation, one of the fluids being collision-less. The hydrodynamical evolution is solved through the SPH method while gravitational forces are calculated using a tree method.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Hultman , Daniel Kaellander

We compare the results of two--dimensional simulations to experimental data obtained at Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to validate the FLASH code. FLASH is a multi--physics, block--structured adaptive mesh refinement code for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vikram Dwarkadas , Tomek Plewa , Greg Weirs , Chris Tomkins , Mark Marr-Lyon

This paper presents a new multiphase flow code, cast under an open-source GNU license. The main characteristics of the different flow models are given, then the numerical method used is briefly presented: it includes temporal flow solvers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-04 Kevin Schmidmayer , Antoine Marty , Fabien Petitpas , Eric Daniel

Simulating multiscale flows with moving boundaries, such as hypersonic multi-body separation and flows in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), requires robust numerical methods that couple mesh deformation with complex flow physics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yue Zhang , Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Kun Xu

We present a case study of validating an astrophysical simulation code. Our study focuses on validating FLASH, a parallel, adaptive-mesh hydrodynamics code for studying the compressible, reactive flows found in many astrophysical…

We present the FARGO3D code, recently publicly released. It is a magnetohydrodynamics code developed with special emphasis on protoplanetary disks physics and planet-disk interactions, and parallelized with MPI. The hydrodynamics algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Frédéric Masset

Current and coming surveys will require sub-percent agreement in theoretical accuracy to test the different cosmological and gravity scenarios. This can be performed with Boltzmann solvers, i.e. codes that solve the linear evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Rubén Arjona

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

The detection of gravitational waves has opened a new era for astronomy, allowing for the combined use of gravitational wave and electromagnetic emissions to directly probe the physics of compact objects, still poorly understood. So far,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-05 Alessandro Lupi

The study of the interaction between solid objects and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids is of great importance in physics as consequence of the significant phenomena generated, such as planets interacting with stellar wind produced by their…

This article describes a new, fully adaptive Particle-Multiple-Mesh numerical simulation code developed primarily for simulations of small regions (such as a group of galaxies) in a cosmological context. It integrates the equations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sergio Gelato , David F. Chernoff , Ira Wasserman

Transport and mixing of gas species are of particular interest in planetary environments, where interactions among multiple species can occur within confined or porous media. In this work, we present a novel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Maggioni , Matteo Teodori , Gianfranco Magni , Michelangelo Formisano , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Francesca Altieri