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Standard formulations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) are unable to resolve mixing at fluid boundaries. We use an error and stability analysis of the generalised SPH equations of motion to prove that this is due to two distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield , O. Agertz

Since its inception, the full Lagrangian meshless smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has experienced a tremendous enhancement in methodology and impacted a range of multi-physics applications in science and engineering. The paper…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Chi Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Dong Wu , Xiangyu Hu

Jeans showed analytically that, in an infinite uniform-density isothermal gas, plane-wave perturbations collapse to dense sheets if their wavelength, $\lambda$, satisfies $\lambda > \lambda_{_{\rm JEANS}} = (\pi a^2 / G \rho_{_0})^{1/2}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Hubber , S. P. Goodwin , A. P. Whitworth

Computational fluid dynamics is a crucial tool to theoretically explore the cosmos. In the last decade, we have seen a substantial methodological diversification with a number of cross-fertilizations between originally different methods.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Stephan Rosswog

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 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

To make relevant predictions about observable emission, hydrodynamical simulation codes must employ schemes that account for radiative losses, but the large dimensionality of accurate radiative transfer schemes is often prohibitive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 James C. Lombardi , William G. McInally , Joshua A. Faber

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been widely used to simulate incompressible and slightly compressible fluid flows. Adaptive refinement strategies to dynamically increase the resolution of the particles to capture sharp…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-31 Abhinav Muta , Pawan Negi , Prabhu Ramachandran

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively used to model high and low Reynolds number flows, free surface flows and collapse of dams, study pore-scale flow and dispersion, elasticity, and thermal problems. In different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Alexander A. Lukyanov , Kees Vuik

Fracture is a very challenging and complicated problem with various applications in engineering and physics. Although it has been extensively studied within the context of mesh-based numerical techniques, such as the finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Mohammad Naqib Rahimi , Georgios Moutsanidis

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

Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a well-established approach to model fluids in astrophysical problems, thanks to its geometric flexibility and ability to automatically adjust the spatial resolution to the clumping of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Hess , V. Springel

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

In this paper we investigate whether Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), equipped with artificial conductivity, is able to capture the physics of density/energy discontinuities in the case of the so-called shearing layers test, a test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Sander Valcke , Sven De Rijcke , Elke Roediger , Herwig Dejonghe

A set of interpolating functions of the type f(v)={(sin[v pi/2])/(v pi/2)}^n is analyzed in the context of the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The behaviour of these kernels for several values of the parameter n has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Ruben M. Cabezon , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Antonio Relaño

Several Lagrangian methodologies have been proposed in recent years to simulate advection-dispersion of solutes in fluids as a mass exchange between numerical particles carrying the fluid. In this paper, we unify these methodologies,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Guillem Sole-Mari , Michael J. Schmidt , Stephen D. Pankavich , David A. Benson

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

In this study, we investigate the dispersive properties of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPM) in a strongly magnetized medium by using linear analysis. In modern SPM, a correction term proportional to the divergence of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Kazunari Iwasaki

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

Wet particle separation is widely used in mineral processing and plastic recycling to separate mixtures of particulate materials into further usable fractions due to density differences. This work presents efforts aiming to numerically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-28 Darius Markauskas , Harald Kruggel-Emden