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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been increasingly used for simulating fluid flows, however its ability to simulate evaporating flow requires significant improvements. This paper proposes an SPH method for evaporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong

I present a review of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), with the aim of providing a mathematically rigorous, clear derivation of the algorithms from first principles. The method of discretising a continuous field into particles using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter J. Cossins

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular numerical technique developed for simulating complex fluid flows. Among its key ingredients is the use of nonlocal integral relaxations to local differentiations. Mathematical analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian

The smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique is a numerical method for solving gas-dynamical problems. It has been applied to simulate the evolution of a wide variety of astrophysical systems. The method has a second-order accuracy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín , Kevin Ebinger

This paper proposes and validates two new particle regularization techniques for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method to improve its stability and accuracy for free surface flow simulations. We introduce a general form…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-05 Mojtaba Jandaghian , Herman Musumari Siaben , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

We analyse the performance of twelve different implementations of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) using seven tests designed to isolate key hydrodynamic elements of cosmological simulations which are known to cause the SPH algorithm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Thacker , E. R. Tittley , F. R. Pearce , H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas

We present a practical guide to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (\SPH) and its application to astrophysical problems. Although remarkably robust, \SPH\ must be used with care if the results are to be meaningful since the accuracy of \SPH\…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Martin , F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas

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

The numerical accuracy of particle-based approximations in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is significantly affected by the spatial uniformity of particle distributions, especially for second-order derivatives. This study aims to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhonghua Qiao , Yifan Wei

We seek to accelerate and increase the size of simulations for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) by using multiple resolutions in the spatial discretization of the equations governing the time evolution of systems displaying two-way…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Wei Hu , Wenxiao Pan , Milad Rakhsha , Qiang Tian , Haiyan Hu , Dan Negrut

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

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

We suggest a novel discretisation of the momentum equation for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and show that it significantly improves the accuracy of the obtained solutions. Our new formulation which we refer to as relative pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Tom Abel

The accuracy of meshless methods like Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is highly dependent on the quality of the particle distribution. Existing particle initialization techniques often struggle to simultaneously achieve adaptive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Navaneet Villodi , Prabhu Ramachandran

We present diffSPH, a novel open-source differentiable Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework developed entirely in PyTorch with GPU acceleration. diffSPH is designed centrally around differentiation to facilitate optimization and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-30 Rene Winchenbach , Nils Thuerey

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is plagued by the phenomenon of tensile instability, which is the occurrence of short wavelength zero energy modes resulting in unphysical clustering of particles. The root cause of the instability is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Kanishka Bhattacharya , Tapan Jana , Amit Shaw , L. S. Ramachandra , Vishal Mehera

We present REMIX, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme designed to alleviate effects that typically suppress mixing and instability growth at density discontinuities in SPH simulations. We approach this problem by directly…

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

This paper presents novel and efficient strategies to spatially adapt the amount of computational effort applied based on the local dynamics of a free surface flow, for both classic weakly compressible SPH (WCSPH) and predictive-corrective…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Prashant Goswami , Christopher Batty