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In this paper, we present a spherical Fast Multipole Method (sFMM) for ray tracing simulation of gravitational lensing (GL) on a curved sky. The sFMM is a non-trivial extension of the Fast Multiple Method (FMM) to sphere $\mathbb S^2$, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Xingpao Suo , Xi Kang , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li

Standard formulations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) are unable to resolve mixing at fluid boundaries. We use an error and stability analysis of the generalised SPH equations of motion to prove that this is due to two distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield , O. Agertz

We introduce adaptive particle refinement for compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). SPH calculations have the natural advantage that resolution follows mass, but this is not always optimal. Our implementation allows the user…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rebecca Nealon , Daniel Price

A new computational model is presented suitable for exploring the self-consistent production of energetic electrons during magnetic reconnection in macroscale systems. The equations are based on the recent discovery that parallel electric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 J. F. Drake , H. Arnold , M. Swisdak , J. T. Dahlin

In this work, we present a positivity-preserving adaptive filtering approach for discontinuous spectral element approximations of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. This approach combines the entropy filtering method (Dzanic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden

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

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics is a particle-based, fully Lagrangian, method for fluid-flow simulations. In this work, fundamental concepts of the method are first briefly recalled. Then, we present a thorough comparison of three different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-22 Kamil Szewc , Jacek Pozorski , Jean-Pierre Minier

Numerical resolution of high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs remains a huge challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. Starting from the weak formulation of the Lawson-Euler scheme, this paper proposes a stochastic particle method (SPM) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applications in three dimensions. The code has been developed with a…

Magnetic particles underpin a broad range of technologies, from water purification and mineral processing to bioseparations and targeted drug delivery. The dynamics of magnetic particles in high-gradient magnetic fields-encompassing both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Marko Tesanovic , Daniel M. Markiewitz , Marcus L. Popp , Martin Z. Bazant , Sonja Berensmeier

This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

The rotation-two-component Camassa--Holm system, which possesses strongly nonlinear coupled terms and high-order differential terms, tends to have continuous nonsmooth solitary wave solutions, such as peakons, stumpons, composite waves and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Tong Yan , Jiwei Zhang , Qifeng Zhang

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

The vortex particle method (VPM) is a mesh-free approach to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solving the Navier-Stokes equations in their velocity-vorticity form. The VPM uses a Lagrangian scheme, which not only avoids the hurdles of mesh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-30 Eduardo J. Alvarez , Andrew Ning

Resistive magnetohydrodynamics is thought to play a key role in transient astrophysical phenomena such as black hole flares and neutron star magnetospheres. When performing numerical simulations of resistive magnetohydrodynamics, one is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Ruben Lier , Akash Jain , Jay Armas , Oliver Porth

In the last decade, the perfectly matched layer (PML) approach has proved a flexible and accurate method for the simulation of waves in unbounded media. Most PML formulations, however, usually require wave equations stated in their standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Marcus J. Grote , Imbo Sim

Giant impacts (GIs) are common in the late stage of planet formation. The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is widely used for simulating the outcome of such violent collisions, one prominent example being the formation of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Hongping Deng , Christian Reinhardt , Federico Benitez , Lucio Mayer , Joachim Stadel

The total angular momentum of a close system is a conserved quantity, which should remain constant in time for any excitation experiment once the pumping signal has extinguished. Such conservation, however, is never satisfied in practice in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Jacopo Simoni , Stefano Sanvito

We describe DEVA, a multistep AP3M-like-SPH code particularly designed to study galaxy formation and evolution in connection with the global cosmological model. This code uses a formulation of SPH equations which ensures both energy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Serna , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , A. Saiz

We summarize the ideas that led to the Adaptive Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (ASPH) algorithm, with anisotropic smoothing and shock-tracking. We then identify a serious new problem for SPH simulations with shocks and radiative cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Martel , Paul R. Shapiro