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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

In this paper we develop a dual-support smoothed particle hydrodynamics (DS-SPH) that naturally satisfies the conservation of momentum, angular momentum and energy when the varying smoothing length is utilized. The DS-SPH is based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Huilong Ren , Zili Dai , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

There has been interest in recent years to assess the ability of astrophysical hydrodynamics codes to correctly model the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), in particular, has received significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Terrence S. Tricco

We present an implementation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with improved accuracy for simulations of galaxies and the large-scale structure. In particular, we combine, implement, modify and test a vast majority of SPH improvement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 A. M. Beck , G. Murante , A. Arth , R. -S. Remus , A. F. Teklu , J. M. F. Donnert , S. Planelles , M. C. Beck , P. Foerster , M. Imgrund , K. Dolag , S. Borgani

Various formulations of smooth-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) have been proposed, intended to resolve certain difficulties in the treatment of fluid mixing instabilities. Most have involved changes to the algorithm which either introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Philip F. Hopkins

Modulating the number of particles in a region is key to accurately capturing the nuances in compressible flows with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). This paper presents a volume-based adaptive refinement and derefinement procedure,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-08 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran

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 present a new formulation of the equations of motion used in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The spatial resolution in SPH is determined by the smoothing length, $h$, and it has become common practice for each particle to be given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Richard P. Nelson , John C. B. Papaloizou

This paper presents a divergence cleaning formulation for the velocity in the weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme. The proposed hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning, ensures that the velocity divergence,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-01 Georgios Fourtakas , Renato Vacondio , Benedict D. Rogers

Computational fluid dynamics is a crucial tool to theoretically explore the cosmos. In the last decade, we have seen a substantial methodological diversification with a number of cross-fertilizations between originally different methods.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Stephan Rosswog

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH_ is a mesh-free Lagrangian method renowned for modeling large deformations and free-surface flows, yet classical formulations remain confined to deterministic systems. We introduce Stochastic SPH…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mridul Tiwari , Sawan Kumar , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam , Souvik Chakraborty

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is omnipresent in modern engineering and scientific disciplines. SPH is a class of Lagrangian schemes that discretize fluid dynamics via finite material points that are tracked through the evolving…

We describe and demonstrate a method for increasing the resolution locally in a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) simulation, by splitting particles. We show that in simulations of self-gravitating collapse (of the sort which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth

In fluid dynamical simulations in astrophysics, large deformations are common and surface tracking is sometimes necessary. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used in many of such simulations. Recently, however, it has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Satoko Yamamoto , Junichiro Makino

This review discusses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in the astrophysical context, with a focus on inviscid gas dynamics. The particle-based SPH technique allows an intuitive and simple formulation of hydrodynamics that has excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively studied in computer graphics to animate fluids with versatile effects. However, SPH still suffers from two numerical difficulties: the particle deficiency problem, which will…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xiaowei He , Huamin Wang , Guoping Wang , Hongan Wang , Enhua Wu

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

Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a well-established approach to model fluids in astrophysical problems, thanks to its geometric flexibility and ability to automatically adjust the spatial resolution to the clumping of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Hess , V. Springel

We describe a modified form of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in which the specific thermal energy equation is based on a compatibly differenced formalism, guaranteeing exact conservation of the total energy. We compare the errors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-18 J. Michael Owen

Analysing data from Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations is about understanding global fluid properties rather than individual fluid elements. Therefore, in order to properly understand the outcome of such simulations it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Röttgers , Alexander Arth