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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

The impact of liquid drops on a heated solid surface is of great importance in many engineering applications. This paper describes the simulation of the drop-wall interaction using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The SPH…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-14 Xiufeng Yang , Yaoyu Pan , Song-Charng Kong

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

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

In this paper, we present a multi-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for modeling fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. By introducing different smoothing lengths and time steps, the spatio-temporal discretization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Chi Zhang , Massoud Rezavand , Xiangyu Hu

This paper proposes a novel GPU-based active nematic flow solver based on the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Nematohydrodynamics equations are discretized using the SPH algorithm, and the periodic domain is enforced using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-01 Roozbeh Saghatchi , Deniz Can Kolukisa , Mehmet Yildiz

We adapt the Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics technique to allow a multiphase fluid in which SPH particles of widely differing density may be freely intermixed. Applications include modelling of galaxy formation and cooling flows.

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Benedict W. Ritchie , Peter A. Thomas

In this paper, we present a projection-based model-order reduction (MOR) technique for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, which is a mesh-free approach within the Lagrangian framework. Our approach utilizes the proper…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Lidong Fang , Zilong Song , Kirk Fraser , Faisal Habib , Christopher Drummond , Huaxiong Huang

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 total Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (TL-SPH) for elastic solid dynamics suffers from hourglass modes which can grow and lead to the failure of simulation for problems with large deformation. To address this long-standing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Dong Wu , Chi Zhang , Xiaojing Tang , Xiangyu Hu

We present a set of new smoothing kernels for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) that improve the convergence of the method without any additional computational cost. These kernels are generated through a linear combination of other SPH…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Robert Wissing , Thomas R. Quinn , Ben Keller , James Wadsley , Sijing Shen

Smooth-Particle-Hydrodynamics is gaining popularity for the simulation of solids subjected to machining, wear, and impacts. Its attractiveness is due to its abilities to simulate problems involving large deformations resulting from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-23 Alban de Vaucorbeil , Christopher R. Hutchinson

In this paper we show how a Lagrangian variational principle can be used to derive the SPMHD (smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics) equations for ideal MHD. We also consider the effect of a variable smoothing length in the SPH kernels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

Obtaining a stable magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) formalism in SPH - i.e. smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) - has proven remarkably difficult. To implement MHD requires two steps: a modification to the momentum equation and an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-23 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate , Terrence S. Tricco

We review existing SPH setup methods and outline their advantages, limitations and drawbacks. We present a new method for constructing initial conditions for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, which may also be of interest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Steven Diehl , Gabriel Rockefeller , Christopher L. Fryer , David Riethmiller , Thomas S. Statler

In this paper, we propose a reduced-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formulation for quasi-static and dynamic analyses of plate and shell structures undergoing finite deformation and large rotation. By exploiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Dong Wu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

In this work we will identify a novel relation between Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and explicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using a coarse-graining method from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD). While the current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

Multiphase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used to study the jet breakup phenomena. It has been shown that this method is well capable of capturing different jet breakup characteristics. The value obtained for critical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Amirsaman Farrokhpanah , Javad Mostaghimi

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

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics implementation SPHGal, which combines some recently proposed improvements in GADGET. This includes a pressure-entropy formulation with a Wendland kernel, a higher order estimate of velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Chia-Yu Hu , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Benjamin P. Moster , Ludwig Oser