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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

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

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

In this paper, we present a new formulation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which, unlike the standard SPH (SSPH), is well-behaved at the contact discontinuity. The SSPH scheme cannot handle discontinuities in density (e.g. the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Satoko Yamamoto , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been demonstrated as a promising numerical solver for multiphase flow problems due to its Lagrangian nature, its application to complex channel flow may encounter additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-Yang Zhan , Zhen Chen

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

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is typically used for barotropic fluids, where the pressure depends only on the local mass density. Here, we show how to incorporate the entropy into the SPH, so that the pressure can also depend on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-21 Michal Pavelka , Vaclav Klika , Ondrej Kincl

We present and test a general-purpose code, called PPASPH, for evolving self-gravitating fluids in astrophysics, both with and without a collisionless component. In PPASPH, hydrodynamical properties are computed by using the SPH (Smoothed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arturo Serna , Jean-Michel Alimi , Jean-Pierre Chieze

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and simplicity. We introduce the Sphenix SPH scheme, which was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower , Joop Schaye

We present an implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in an adaptive-mesh PPPM algorithm. The code evolves a mixture of purely gravitational particles and gas particles. The code retains the desirable properties of previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas , F. R. Pearce

In this paper we propose a dual-time stepping scheme for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Dual-time stepping has been used in the context of other numerical methods for the simulation of incompressible fluid flows. Here we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Prabhu Ramachandran , Abhinav Muta , Ramakrishna Mokkapati

The standard formulation of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) assumes that the local density distribution is differentiable. This assumption is used to derive the spatial derivatives of other quantities. However, this assumption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) employs an artificial viscosity to properly capture hydrodynamical shock waves. In its original formulation, the resulting numerical viscosity is large enough to suppress structure in the velocity field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Dolag , F. Vazza , G. Brunetti , G. Tormen

We present the methodology and performance of the new Lagrangian hydrodynamics code MAGMA2, a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code that benefits from a number of non-standard enhancements. By default it uses high-order smoothing kernels and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Stephan Rosswog

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular numerical technique developed for simulating complex fluid flows. Among its key ingredients is the use of nonlocal integral relaxations to local differentiations. Mathematical analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian

In smooth-particle hydrodynamics (SPH), artificial viscosity is necessary for the correct treatment of shocks, but often generates unwanted dissipation away from shocks. We present a novel method of controlling the amount of artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-06 Lee Cullen , Walter Dehnen

The weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is known to suffer from the pressure oscillation, which would undermine the simulation stability and accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a generalized density dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-30 Bo Xue Zheng , Zhi Wen Cai , Pei Dong Zhao , Xiao Yang Xu , Tak Shing Chan , Peng Yu

We suggest a novel discretisation of the momentum equation for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and show that it significantly improves the accuracy of the obtained solutions. Our new formulation which we refer to as relative pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Tom Abel
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