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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

We review recent 3D hydrodynamic calculations of stellar collisions using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, and we discuss the implications of the results for the formation and evolution of blue stragglers in globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James C. Lombardi , Frederic A. Rasio

We model for the first time the complete orbital evolution of a pair of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in a 1:10 galaxy merger of two disk dominated gas-rich galaxies, from the stage prior to the formation of the binary up to the onset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Ingo Berentzen , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just , Lucio Mayer , Keigo Nitadori , Simone Callegari

In Paper I, we followed the evolution of binary stars as they orbited near the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic center, noting the cases in which the two stars would come close enough together to collide. In this paper we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Antonini , James C. Lombardi , David Merritt

We study the formation of massive Population III binary stars using a newly developed radiation hydrodynamics code with the adaptive mesh refinement and adaptive ray-tracing methods. We follow the evolution of a typical primordial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-16 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Takashi Hosokawa , Shingo Hirano , Kazuyuki Omukai

The complexity of composite spectra of close binary star system makes study of the spectra of their component stars extremely difficult. For this reason there exists very little information on the photospheric chemical composition of stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. Pavlovski , J. Southworth

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

We investigate the accretion flows onto the supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) from the circumbinary disk with the equal mass, eccentric binary on the subparsec scale, using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

We have invented a new algorithm to use with self-gravitating SPH Star Formation codes. The new method is designed to enable SPH simulations to self-regulate their numerical resolution, i.e. the number of SPH particles; the latter is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Spyridon Kitsionas

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

Stellar winds shape the evolution of stars through the loss of mass. In binary systems, they also shape the stars' evolution by modifying the orbit. In this paper, we use hydrodynamic simulations to study the emergence of nearly-isothermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Morgan MacLeod , Abraham Loeb

A measurement of the history of cosmic star formation is central to understand the origin and evolution of galaxies. The measurement is extremely challenging using electromagnetic radiation: significant modeling is required to convert…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-25 Salvatore Vitale , Will M. Farr , Ken Ng , Carl L. Rodriguez

We review the current status of compact object simulations that are based on the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The first main part of this review is dedicated to SPH as a numerical method. We begin by discussing relevant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 S. Rosswog

We have performed a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of binary coalescence using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The initial conditions are exact polytropic equilibrium configurations with $\gam >…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

We use a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code to examine the effects of misaligned binary companions on Be star discs. We systematically vary the degree of misalignment between the disc and the binary orbit, as well as the disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Isabelle H. Cyr , Carol E. Jones , Despina Panoglou , Alex C. Carciofi , Atsuo T. Okazaki

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

Despite numerous efforts to better understand binary star evolution, some aspects of it remain poorly constrained. In particular, the evolution of eccentric binaries has remained elusive mainly because the Roche lobe formalism derived for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Charles-Philippe Lajoie , Alison Sills

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

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

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