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We present a new algorithm for simulating two-fluid gas and dust mixtures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), systematically addressing a number of key issues including the generalised SPH density estimate in multi-fluid systems, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

A challenging requirement posed by next-generation observations is a firm theoretical grasp of the impact of baryons on structure formation. Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations modeling gas physics are vital in this regard. A high degree…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 J. D. Emberson , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Patricia Larsen , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope

Numerical simulations of fluids in astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are among the most computationally-demanding calculations, in terms of sustained floating-point operations per second, or FLOP/s. It is expected that…

In this paper we show how the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be written in conservation form with the positivity of the dissipation guaranteed. We call the resulting algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

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

The correct evaluation of gradients is at the cornerstone of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. Using an integral approach to estimate gradients has proven to enhance accuracy substantially. Such approach retains the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín

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

A PCA-based, machine learning version of the SPH method is proposed. In the present scheme, the smoothing tensor is computed to have their eigenvalues proportional to the covariance's principal components, using a modified octree data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Eraldo Pereira Marinho

The aim of this paper is to introduce a consistent velocity smoothing method for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). First the locally averaged Navier-Stokes equations are derived in a mathematically rigorous way to demonstrate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-31 Kalale Chola

Numerical methods to improve the treatment of magnetic fields in smoothed field magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) are developed and tested. Chapter 2 is a review of SPMHD. In Chapter 3, a mixed hyperbolic/parabolic scheme is developed which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Terrence S. Tricco

This paper proposes a novel consistent {\delta}+- Updated Lagrangian Particle Hydrodynamics (ULPH) model. Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model has gained recognized achievements, it is afflicted by excessive numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Shi-Xian Wu , Peng-Nan Sun , Xiao-Ting Huang , Yu-Xiang Peng , Andrea Colagrossi

Supersonic turbulence is vital to astrophysical and high-speed engineering flows, yet its energy transfer mechanisms remain poorly understood. We present high-resolution ($1024^3$) direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-30 Harshit Tiwari , Dhananjay Singh , Mahendra K. Verma , Rajesh Ranjan

We present a 'two-fluid' implementation of dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in the test particle limit. The scheme is able to handle both short and long stopping times and reproduces the short friction time limit, which is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Richard A. Booth , Debora Sijacki , Cathie J. Clarke

Direct and large eddy simulations of hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulence have been performed in an attempt to isolate artifacts from real and possibly asymptotic features in the energy spectra. It is shown that in a hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. E. L. Haugen , A. Brandenburg

In this work, we will present evidence for the incompatibility of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods and eddy viscosity models. Taking a coarse-graining perspective, we physically argue that SPH methods operate intrinsically as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Markus Wicker , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

We compare here several modern versions of SPH with a particular focus on the impact of gradient accuracy. We examine specifically an approximation to the "linearly exact" gradients (aLE) with standard SPH kernel gradients and with linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Rosswog

We present the simulation of 3D time dependent flow of rotating ideal gas falling into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is shown that also in the 3D case steady shocks are formed in a wide range of parameters (initial angular momentum and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. Gerardi , D. Molteni , V. Teresi

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-31 Irina Sagert , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Terrance Strother

There have been some issues in the past in attempts to simulate magnetic fields using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. SPH is well suited to star formation problems because of its Lagrangian nature. We present new, stable…

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

The unavailability of accurate boundary treatment methods for compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) severely limits its ability to simulate flows in and around bodies. To this end, challenges specific to compressible flows with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran