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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

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, breakup of liquid jet is simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) which is a meshless Lagrangian numerical method. For this aim, flow governing equations are discretized based on SPH method. In this paper,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-24 Majid Pourabdian , Pourya Omidvar , Mohammad Reza Morad

We test and improve the numerical schemes in our smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code for cosmological simulations, including the pressure-entropy formulation (PESPH), a time-dependent artificial viscosity, a refined timestep…

The study of the stability of massive gaseous disks around a star in a non-isolated context is not a trivial issue and becomes a more complicated task for disks hosted by binary systems. The role of self-gravity is thought to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Luis Diego Pinto , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Gianfranco Magni

Dissipative particle dynamics is a widely used mesoscale technique for the simulation of hydrodynamics (as well as immersed particles) utilizing coarse-grained molecular dynamics. While the method is capable of describing any fluid, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Ryan C. Krafnick , Angel E. Garcia

We present a new hybrid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)/N-body method for modelling the collisional stellar dynamics of young clusters in a live gas background. By deriving the equations of motion from Lagrangian mechanics we obtain a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. A. Hubber , R. J. Allison , R. Smith , S. P. Goodwin

We present a new approach to simulating mixtures of gas and dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We show how the two-fluid equations can be rewritten to describe a single-fluid 'mixture' moving with the barycentric velocity, with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Daniel J. Price , Guillaume Laibe

There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

We investigate relativistic spherically symmetric static perfect fluid models in the framework of the theory of dynamical systems. The field equations are recast into a regular dynamical system on a 3-dimensional compact state space,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Mark Heinzle , N. Rohr , C. Uggla

We review recent advances in the study of binary star formation that have been made using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. We discuss the importance of ensuring that the Jeans mass is always resolved during a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew R. Bate

A unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework is proposed to simulate interaction dynamics involving thin shells modeled by a reduced-dimensional, single-layer particle discretization, as opposed to full-dimensional SPH solids.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Dong Wu , Shuaihao Zhang , Weiyi Kong , Xiangyu Hu

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art…

Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics has reached a level of maturity that enables the study of a wide range of astrophysical problems. In this review, the numerical details of the modern SPMHD method are described. The three fundamental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Terrence S. Tricco

We present a method for general relativistic smoothed particle hydrodynamics (GRSPH), based on an entropy-conservative form of the general relativistic hydrodynamic equations for a perfect fluid. We aim to replace approximate treatments of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 David Liptai , Daniel J. Price

In recent years the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) approach gained popularity in modeling multiphase and free-surface flows. In many situations, due to certain reasons, interface and free-surface fragmentation occurs. As a result…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Kamil Szewc , Katarzyna Walczewska-Szewc , Michał Olejnik

We perform simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The instability is studied both in the linear and strongly non-linear regimes. The smooth, well-posed initial conditions of Lecoanet et…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Terrence S. Tricco

We present a new framework for radiation hydrodynamics simulations. Gas dynamics is modelled by the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, whereas radiation transfer is simulated via a time-dependent Monte-Carlo approach that traces…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Seung-Hoon Cha , Alexander Hobbs

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

Diffuse-interface theory provides a foundation for the modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in a very wide range of materials, and for the tracking/capturing of dynamic interfaces between different materials on larger scales.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin , Alexandre Tartakovsky