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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a unique numerical method widely used for astrophysical problems since it involves no spatial grid. Rather, fluid quantities are carried by a set of Lagrangian `particles' which move with the flow,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Daniel Price

Astrophysical fluids under the influence of magnetic fields are often subjected to single-fluid or two-fluid approximations. In the case of weakly ionized plasmas however, this can be inappropriate due to distinct responses from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. O'Sullivan , T. P. Downes

One of the most computationally demanding aspects of the hydrodynamical modelling of Astrophysical phenomena is the transport of energy by radiation or relativistic particles. Physical processes involving energy transport are ubiquitous and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Darren S. Reed , Tim Dykes , Ruben Cabezon , Claudio Gheller , Lucio Mayer

We describe the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code CRONOS, which has been used in astrophysics and space physics studies in recent years. CRONOS has been designed to be easily adaptable to the problem at hand, where the user can expand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , B. L. Krebl , T. Wiengarten

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

We provide a description of the SNSPH code--a parallel 3-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code implementing treecode gravity, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and flux-limited diffusion transport schemes. We provide descriptions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Fryer , G. Rockefeller , M. S. Warren

When modeling astrophysical fluid flows, it is often appropriate to discard the canonical magnetohydrodynamic approximation thereby freeing the magnetic field to diffuse with respect to the bulk velocity field. As a consequence, however,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen O'Sullivan , Turlough P. Downes

We present the theory, algorithms and implementation of a parallel finite-volume algorithm for the solution of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations using unstructured grids that are applicable for a wide variety of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-11 S. Vantieghem , A. Sheyko , A. Jackson

A fundamental principle of chaotic quantum dynamics is that local subsystems eventually approach a thermal equilibrium state. Large subsystems thermalize slower: their approach to equilibrium is limited by the hydrodynamic build-up of…

We have developed a parallel cosmological hydrodynamic simulation code designed for the study of formation and evolution of cosmological structures. The gravitational force is calculated using the TreePM method and the hydrodynamics is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Jihye Shin , Juhan Kim , Sungsoo S. Kim , Changbom Park

Astrophysical fluids are turbulent, magnetized and frequently partially ionized. As an example of astrophysical turbulence, the interstellar turbulence extends over a remarkably large range of spatial scales and participates in key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-22 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. J. Korpi

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

This report presents the MOD{\`E}FONE project, whose objective is to develop a simplified experimental model of the cerebrospinal system in order to investigate fluid-structure interactions and physiological adaptations under altered…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Célia Batonon , Heimiri Monnier , Arnaud Gauberville , Léna Connesson

Vortices, turbulence, and unsteady non-laminar flows are likely both prominent and dynamically important features of astrophysical disks. Such strongly nonlinear phenomena are often difficult, however, to simulate accurately, and are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Darryl Seligman , Gregory Laughlin

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

These lecture notes and example problems are based on a course given at the University of Cambridge in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Fluid dynamics is involved in a very wide range of astrophysical phenomena, such as the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Gordon I. Ogilvie

We present a new 1-D multi-physics simulation code with use cases intended for, but not limited to, hydrodynamic escapeproblems of planetary atmospheres and planetary accretion models. Our formulation treats an arbitrary number of species…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Matthäus Schulik , Richard Booth

We introduce a new code for cosmological simulations, PHoToNs, which has features on performing massive cosmological simulations on heterogeneous high performance Computer (HPC) and threads oriented programming. PHoToNs adopts a hybrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Qiao Wang , Zongyan Cao , Liang Gao , Xuebin Chi , Chen Meng , Jie Wang , Long Wang

In recent years, numerical simulations have become indispensable for addressing complex astrophysical problems. The MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) framework represents a key tool for investigating the dynamical evolution of astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Giancarlo Mattia , Daniele Crocco , David Melon Fuksman , Matteo Bugli , Vittoria Berta , Eleonora Puzzoni , Andrea Mignone , Bhargav Vaidya