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We present a fully analytic approach for evaluating boundary integrals in two dimensions for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). Conventional methods often rely on boundary particles or wall re-normalization approaches derived from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Rene Winchenbach , Andreas Kolb

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

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods are advantageous in simulations of fluids in domains with free boundary. Special SPH methods have also been developed to simulate solids. However, there are situations where the matter behaves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Michal Pavelka , Václav Klika

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

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new computational fluid dynamics method to be called unsmoothed particle hydrodynamics SPH$-i$ which makes few assumptions and makes no assumption beyond the Navier-Stokes equations. The most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Kalale Chola

We present the results from a two-day study in which we discussed various implementations of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), one of the leading methods used across a variety of areas of large-scale astrophysical simulations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Lars Hernquist , George Lake , Jun Makino , Steve McMillan , Thomas Sterling

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) discretization techniques are generalized to develop a method, smoothed particle interpolation (SPI), for solving initial value problems of systems of non-hydrodynamical nature. Under this approach, SPH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Pablo Laguna

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a particle-based, Lagrangian method for fluid-flow simulations. In this work, fundamental concepts of this method are first briefly recalled. Then, the ability to accurately model granular…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 Kamil Szewc

Particle methods play an important role in the study of a wide variety of astrophysical fluid dynamics problems. The different methods currently in use are all variants of the so-called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic A. Rasio

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

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

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is a useful numerical tool for the study of a variety of astrophysical and planetlogical problems. However, it turned out that the standard SPH algorithm has problems in dealing with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Natsuki Hosono , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

Meshfree particle methods, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Moving Particle Semi-Implicit (MPS) method, are widely used to simulate complex free-surface and multiphase flows. A key challenge in these methods is the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Nariman Mehranfar , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

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

First, a meshless simulation method is presented for multiphase fluid-particle flows with a two-way coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) for the fluid and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) for the solid phase. The unresolved fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-28 Martin Robinson , Stefan Luding , Marco Ramaioli

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

Particle shifting techniques (PST) have been used to improve the accuracy of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Shifting ensures that the particles are distributed homogeneously in space. This may be performed by moving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh Adepu , Prabhu Ramachandran

The method of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is developped appropriately for the study of relativistic heavy ion collision processes. In order to describe the flow of a high energy but low baryon number density fluid, the entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. E. Aguiar , T. Kodama , T. Osada , Y. Hama

In this paper, we present a new formulation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which, unlike the standard SPH (SSPH), is well-behaved at the contact discontinuity. The SSPH scheme cannot handle discontinuities in density (e.g. the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Satoko Yamamoto , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

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