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Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

Obtaining a stable magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) formalism in SPH - i.e. smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) - has proven remarkably difficult. To implement MHD requires two steps: a modification to the momentum equation and an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-23 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate , Terrence S. Tricco

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

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on the magnetic field to machine-precision. Our CT scheme uses an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are indispensable research infrastructure in astrophysics today. In order to satisfy the solenoidal constraint of the MHD equations on discretized grids, modern simulation codes often employ either…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Kengo Tomida , Kenji Eric Sadanari , Shinsuke Takasao , Kazunari Iwasaki

We study the convergence properties of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) using numerical tests and simple analytic considerations. Our analysis shows that formal numerical convergence is possible in SPH only in the joint limit $N…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Qirong Zhu , Lars Hernquist , Yuexing Li

We present a new method for evolving the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (both Newtonian and relativistic) that is capable of maintaining a divergence-free magnetic field ($\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0$) on adaptively refined, conformally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 P. Chris Fragile , Daniel Nemergut , Payden L. Shaw , Peter Anninos

We modify an existing magnetohydrodynamics algorithm to make it more compatible with a dimensionally-split (DS) framework. It is based on the standard reconstruct-solve-average strategy (using a Riemann solver), and relies on constrained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-17 Hari Sriskantha , Maximilian Ruffert

This paper presents an overview and introduction to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics in theory and in practice. Firstly, we give a basic grounding in the fundamentals of SPH, showing how the equations of motion and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-22 Daniel J. Price

In this paper we investigate the use of the vector potential as a means of maintaining the divergence constraint in the numerical solution of the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel J. Price

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

We present the results from a two-day study in which we discussed various implementations of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), one of the leading methods used across a variety of areas of large-scale astrophysical simulations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Lars Hernquist , George Lake , Jun Makino , Steve McMillan , Thomas Sterling

Many astrophysical and terrestrial scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Although the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Domingo García-Senz , Robert Wissing , Rubén M. Cabezón , Eda Vurgun , Manuel Linares

A description is given for preserving ${\bmsy\nabla}\cdot{\vec B}=0$ in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that employs the upwind, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme and the Strang-type operator splitting for multi-dimensionality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

We present the implementation of a three-dimensional, second order accurate Godunov-type algorithm for magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), in the adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) cosmological code {\tt CHARM}. The algorithm is based on the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Miniati , Daniel F. Martin

In this paper, we develop a new method for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). To describe MHD shocks accurately, the Godunov method is applied to SPH instead of artificial dissipation terms. In the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The paper presents two contributions in the context of the numerical simulation of magnetized fluid dynamics. First, we show how to extend the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with an inbuilt magnetic field divergence cleaning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Marvin Bohm

I present a review of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), with the aim of providing a mathematically rigorous, clear derivation of the algorithms from first principles. The method of discretising a continuous field into particles using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter J. Cossins

This paper presents applications of weighted meshless scheme for conservation laws to the Euler equations and the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The divergence constraint of the latter is maintained to the truncation error by a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Evghenii Gaburov , Keigo Nitadori