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Viscoelastic flows occur widely, and numerical simulations of them are important for a range of industrial applications. Simulations of viscoelastic flows are more challenging than their Newtonian counterparts due to the presence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-06 Jack King , Steven Lind

Hydrodynamical instabilities and shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical scenarios. Therefore, an accurate numerical simulation of these phenomena is mandatory to correctly model and understand many astrophysical events, such as Supernovas,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ruben M. Cabezon , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Joana Figueira

The Position Based Fluids (PBF) method is a state-of-the-art approach for fluid simulations in the context of real-time applications like games. It uses an iterative solver concept that tries to maintain a constant fluid density…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Marcel Köster , Antonio Krüger

We present a new radiative transfer method (SPH-M1RT) that is coupled dynamically with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We implement it in the (task-based parallel) SWIFT galaxy simulation code but it can be straightforwardly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 T. K. Chan , Tom Theuns , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk

The method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) has been widely studied and implemented for a large variety of problems, ranging from astrophysics to fluid dynamics and elasticity problems in solids. However, the method is known to have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Ruslan F. Gabbasov , Jaime Klapp-Escribano , Joel Suarez-Cansino , Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes need to be enhanced by dissipation mechanisms to handle shocks. Most SPH formulations rely on artificial viscosity and while this is working well in pure shocks, attention has to be payed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Stephan Rosswog

The problem of consistency of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has demanded considerable attention in the past few years due to the ever increasing number of applications of the method in many areas of science and engineering. A loss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Jaime Klapp , Otto Rendón , Carlos A. Vargas , Franklin Peña-Polo

Basic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) models exhibit excessive, numerical dissipation in the simulation of water wave propagation. This can be remedied using higher-order approaches such as kernel gradient correction, which introduce…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Lennart Justin Schulze , Vito Zago , Giuseppe Bilotta , Robert Anthony Dalrymple

Artificial viscosity is commonly employed in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to model dissipation in hydrodynamic simulations. However, its practical implementation today relies, in many cases, on complex numerical switches to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón

Direct numerical simulation of subsonic turbulence with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has traditionally been hampered by zeroth-order (E0) errors, inaccurate gradient evaluations, and excessive numerical dissipation. We demonstrate…

I discuss the key features of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) as a numerical method - in particular the key differences between SPH and more standard grid based approaches - that are important to the practitioner. These include the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 Daniel J. Price

The multi-resolution method, e.g., the Adaptive Particle Refinement (APR) method, has been developed to increase the local particle resolution and therefore the solution quality within a pre-defined refinement zone instead of using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-10 Tianrun Gao , Huihe Qiu , Lin Fu

Shallow free surface flows are often characterized by both subdomains that require high modeling complexity and subdomains that can be sufficiently accurately modeled with low modeling complexity. Moreover, these subdomains may change in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rik Verbiest , Julian Koellermeier

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

A three-dimensional model is presented for the prediction of solidification behavior using a nonlinear transformation of the enthalpy equation in a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) discretization. The effect of phase change in the form…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Amirsaman Farrokhpanah , Javad Mostaghimi , Markus Bussmann

We study the convergence properties of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) using numerical tests and simple analytic considerations. Our analysis shows that formal numerical convergence is possible in SPH only in the joint limit $N…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Qirong Zhu , Lars Hernquist , Yuexing Li

A complete and detailed knowledge of the structure of the gaseous component in protoplanetary discs is essential to the study of dust evolution during the early phases of pre-planetesimal formation. The aim of this paper is to determine if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Serena Arena , Jean-François Gonzalez

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) employs an artificial viscosity to properly capture hydrodynamical shock waves. In its original formulation, the resulting numerical viscosity is large enough to suppress structure in the velocity field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Dolag , F. Vazza , G. Brunetti , G. Tormen

In this paper, we develop a new method for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). To describe MHD shocks accurately, the Godunov method is applied to SPH instead of artificial dissipation terms. In the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

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