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Studying compact star binaries and their mergers is integral to determining progenitors for observable transients. Today, compact-star mergers are typically studied via state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics codes. One such numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 M. Alexander R. Kaltenborn , Michael J. Falato , Oleg Korobkin , Irina Sagert , Wesley P. Even

We discuss differences in simulation results that arise between the use of either the thermal energy or the entropy as an independent variable in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). In this context, we derive a new version of SPH that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Analysing data from Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations is about understanding global fluid properties rather than individual fluid elements. Therefore, in order to properly understand the outcome of such simulations it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Röttgers , Alexander Arth

In this work, we will present evidence for the incompatibility of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods and eddy viscosity models. Taking a coarse-graining perspective, we physically argue that SPH methods operate intrinsically as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Markus Wicker , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

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

The aim of this paper is to devise a turbulence model for the particle method Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) which makes few assumptions, conserves linear and angular momentum, satisfies a discrete version of Kelvin's circulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-16 J. J. Monaghan

In the early Universe, large-scale flows were omnipresent, and the flow collisions produced sheets and filaments. This phenomenon occurs for both particle and wave dark matter. But for the latter, these sheets and filaments are the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Ui-Han Zhang , Tak-Pong Woo , Tzihong Chiueh

We review recent advances in the study of binary star formation that have been made using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. We discuss the importance of ensuring that the Jeans mass is always resolved during a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew R. Bate

We seek to accelerate and increase the size of simulations for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) by using multiple resolutions in the spatial discretization of the equations governing the time evolution of systems displaying two-way…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Wei Hu , Wenxiao Pan , Milad Rakhsha , Qiang Tian , Haiyan Hu , Dan Negrut

We investigate shock waves in the unitary Fermi gas by using the zero-temperature equations of superfluid hydrodynamics. We obtain analytical solutions for the dynamics of a localized perturbation of the uniform gas. These supersonic bright…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-11 Luca Salasnich

In this paper, we consider a system of $k$ second order non-linear stochastic partial differential equations with spatial dimension $d \geq 1$, driven by a $q$-dimensional Gaussian noise, which is white in time and with some spatially…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Eulalia Nualart

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

We present a fully Lagrangian conservation form of the general relativistic hydrodynamic equations for perfect fluids with artificial viscosity in a given arbitrary background spacetime. This conservation formulation is achieved by choosing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Siegler , H. Riffert

In this paper, we revisit the governing equations for linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities existing within a magnetized, plane-parallel, self-gravitating slab. Our approach allows for fully non-uniformly magnetized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 J. -B. Durrive , R. Keppens , M. Langer

A two-phase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model has been developed on the basis of GPUSPH, which is an open-source implementation of the weakly compressible SPH method on graphics processing units, to investigate oil dispersion…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Zhangping Wei , Huabin Shi , Cheng Li , Joseph Katz , Robert A. Dalrymple , Giuseppe Bilotta

The spherically symmetric perturbations in the spatially flat Friedman models are considered. It is assumed that the Friedmannian density and pressure are related through a linear equation of state. The perturbation is joined smoothly with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Popov , R. K. Muharlyamov

The spherical Jeans equation (SJE) is widely used in dynamical modelling of the Milky Way (MW) halo potential. We use haloes and galaxies from the cosmological Millennium-II simulation and hydrodynamical APOSTLE simulations to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Wenting Wang , Jiaxin Han , Shaun Cole , Surhud More , Carlos Frenk , Matthieu Schaller

Simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique typically include numerical viscosity to model shocks and maintain particle order on the kernel scale. This numerical viscosity is composed of linear and quadratic terms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Cheng Chen , C. J. Nixon

The solidification behavior of liquid metal in a container under rapid cooling process is one of the major concerns to be analyzed. In order to analyze its fundamental behavior, a three- dimensional (3D) fluid dynamics simulation was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-18 Raden Ahnaf Faqih S , Christian Fredy Naa

Highly supersonic, compressible turbulence is thought to be of tantamount importance for star formation processes in the interstellar medium. Likewise, cosmic structure formation is expected to give rise to subsonic turbulence in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel