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To study the resolution required for simulating gravitational fragmentation with newly developed Lagrangian hydrodynamic schemes, Meshless Finite Volume method (MFV) and Meshless Finite Mass method (MFM), we have performed a number of…

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The fracture simulation of random particle reinforced composite structures remains a challenge. Current techniques either assumed a homogeneous model, ignoring the microstructure characteristics of composite structures, or considered a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Zihao Yang , Shaoqi Zheng , Shangkun Shen , Fei Han

We present a novel implementation of a soft sphere, discrete elements code to simulate the dynamics of self-gravitating granular materials. The code is used to study the outcome of sub-sonic collisions between self-gravitating rubble piles…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Job Guidos , Lucas Kolanz , Davide Lazzati

The study of the shape of droplets on surfaces is an important problem in the physics of fluids and has applications in multiple industries, from agrichemical spraying to microfluidic devices. Motivated by these real-world applications,…

We present the simulation of 3D time dependent flow of rotating ideal gas falling into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is shown that also in the 3D case steady shocks are formed in a wide range of parameters (initial angular momentum and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. Gerardi , D. Molteni , V. Teresi

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is omnipresent in modern engineering and scientific disciplines. SPH is a class of Lagrangian schemes that discretize fluid dynamics via finite material points that are tracked through the evolving…

We investigate the scaling properties of the sources of crackling noise in a fully-dynamic numerical model of sedimentary rocks subject to uniaxial compression. The model is initiated by filling a cylindrical container with randomly-sized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-27 F. Kun , I. Varga , S. Lennartz-Sassinek , I. G. Main

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique is a purely Lagrangian method, used in numerical simulations of fluids in astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics, among many other fields. SPH simulations with detailed physics…

Shock-physics numerical codes are essential tools for describing the short but extreme fragmentation stage of the hypervelocity impact process on asteroids. However, accurately representing complex interior structures, surfaces, and contact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xiaoran Yan , Patrick Michel , Ruichen Ni , Yifei Jiao , Junfeng Li

We have carried out a hydrodynamical code comparison study of interacting multiphase fluids. The two commonly used techniques of grid and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) show striking differences in their ability to model processes…

Event isotropy $\mathcal{I}^\text{sph}$, an event shape observable that measures the distance of a final state from a spherically symmetric state, is designed for new physics signals that are far from QCD-like. Using a new technique for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Cari Cesarotti , Matthew Reece , Matthew J. Strassler

We carry out a systematic exploration of the effect of pre-impact rotation on the outcomes of low-speed collisions between planetesimals modeled as gravitational aggregates. We use pkdgrav, a cosmology code adapted to collisional problems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-23 Ronald-Louis Ballouz , Derek C. Richardson , Patrick Michel , Stephen R. Schwartz

Aims. Our goal is to find a converged cooling limit for fragmentation in self-gravitating disks. This is especially interesting for the formation of planets, brown dwarfs or stars and the growth of black holes. While investigating the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Jannes Klee , Tobias F. Illenseer , Manuel Jung , Wolfgang J. Duschl

The standard theoretical treatment of collisional cascades derives a steady-state size distribution assuming a single constant velocity dispersion for all bodies regardless of size. Here we relax this assumption and solve self-consistently…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Margaret Pan , Hilke E. Schlichting

One common approach for solving collisions between protoplanets in simulations of planet formation is to employ analytical scaling laws. The most widely used one was developed by Leinhardt & Stewart (2012) from a catalog of ~ 180 N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Samuele Crespi , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

We propose a particle-based method to simulate thin-film fluid that jointly facilitates aggressive surface deformation and vigorous tangential flows. We build our dynamics model from the surface tension driven Navier-Stokes equation with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-18 Mengdi Wang , Yitong Deng , Xiangxin Kong , Aditya H. Prasad , Shiying Xiong , Bo Zhu

Self consistent quantum approaches are used to study the instabilities of finite nuclear systems. The frequencies of multipole density fluctuations are determined as a function of dilution and temperature, for several isotopes. The spinodal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Colonna , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

We have performed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to study the time evolution of one and two protoplanets embedded in a protoplanetary accretion disc. We investigate accretion and migration rates of a single protoplanet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Schaefer , R. Speith , M. Hipp , W. Kley

This article presents results of further investigation of the problem of spurious interface fragmentation in the multiphase SPH. In order to remove arising instabilities, many authors introduced the artificial interface correction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Kamil Szewc , Michał Tadeusz Lewandowski

The finite element method and dimensional analysis have been applied in the present paper to study a hydraulic impact, which is utilized in a non-explosive rock breaking technology in mining industry. The impact process of a high speed…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Genet , Wenyi Yan , Thanh Tran-Cong