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The gravitational instability of cosmological pancakes composed of collisionless dark matter in an Einstein-de Sitter universe is investigated numerically to demonstrate that pancakes are unstable with respect to fragmentation and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Azita Valinia , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel , Ethan T. Vishniac

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

We present a set of new smoothing kernels for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) that improve the convergence of the method without any additional computational cost. These kernels are generated through a linear combination of other SPH…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Robert Wissing , Thomas R. Quinn , Ben Keller , James Wadsley , Sijing Shen

We study numerical convergence in local two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well-known that there exists a steady gravito-turbulent state, in which cooling is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is developed for modelling of melting and solidification. Enthalpy method is used to solve heat conduction equations which involved moving interface between phases. At first, we study the melting of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-23 Dede Tarwidi

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

We investigate a new implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics technique (SPH) designed to improve the realism with which galaxy formation can be simulated. In situations where cooling leads to the coexistence of phases of very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Marri , S. D. M. White

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

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics implementation SPHGal, which combines some recently proposed improvements in GADGET. This includes a pressure-entropy formulation with a Wendland kernel, a higher order estimate of velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Chia-Yu Hu , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Benjamin P. Moster , Ludwig Oser

Smoothing short-wavelength charge density variations can stabilize explicit electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations against grid heating and cold beam instabilities, which cause unphysical heating when the Debye length is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Gregory R. Werner , Luke C. Adams , John R. Cary

Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been demonstrated as a promising numerical solver for multiphase flow problems due to its Lagrangian nature, its application to complex channel flow may encounter additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-Yang Zhan , Zhen Chen

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

We present the results of a study of propagating warp or bending waves in accretion discs. Three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations were performed using SPH, and the results of these are compared with calculations based on the linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard P. Nelson , John C. B. Papaloizou

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

The fragmentation of shocked flows in a thermally bistable medium provides a natural mechanism to form turbulent cold clouds as precursors to molecular clouds. Yet because of the large density and temperature differences and the range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Fabian Heitsch , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

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

Superfluidity describes the ability of quantum matter to flow without friction. Due to its fundamental role in many transport phenomena, it is crucial to understand the robustness of superfluid properties to external perturbations. Here, we…

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

We present a quantum computing algorithm for the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. We use a normalization procedure to encode the SPH operators and domain discretization in a quantum register. We then perform the SPH summation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Rhonda Au-Yeung , Anthony J. Williams , Viv M. Kendon , Steven J. Lind

We study the growth of perturbations in a uniformly collapsing cloud of self-gravitating Brownian particles. This problem shares analogies with the formation of large-scale structures in a universe experiencing a "big-crunch" or with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Pierre-Henri Chavanis
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