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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

In this paper we present results from a series of hydrodynamical tests aimed at validating the performance of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formulation in which gradients are derived from an integral approach. We specifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. Valdarnini

We present a new hybrid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)/N-body method for modelling the collisional stellar dynamics of young clusters in a live gas background. By deriving the equations of motion from Lagrangian mechanics we obtain a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. A. Hubber , R. J. Allison , R. Smith , S. P. Goodwin

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

In this paper, we present a multi-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for modeling fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. By introducing different smoothing lengths and time steps, the spatio-temporal discretization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Chi Zhang , Massoud Rezavand , Xiangyu Hu

We present an implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in an adaptive-mesh PPPM algorithm. The code evolves a mixture of purely gravitational particles and gas particles. The code retains the desirable properties of previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. M. P. Couchman , P. A. Thomas , F. R. Pearce

A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

Transport and mixing of gas species are of particular interest in planetary environments, where interactions among multiple species can occur within confined or porous media. In this work, we present a novel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Maggioni , Matteo Teodori , Gianfranco Magni , Michelangelo Formisano , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Francesca Altieri

We present and test a general-purpose code, called PPASPH, for evolving self-gravitating fluids in astrophysics, both with and without a collisionless component. In PPASPH, hydrodynamical properties are computed by using the SPH (Smoothed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arturo Serna , Jean-Michel Alimi , Jean-Pierre Chieze

We present a new formulation of the equations of motion used in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The spatial resolution in SPH is determined by the smoothing length, $h$, and it has become common practice for each particle to be given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Richard P. Nelson , John C. B. Papaloizou

In this work we will identify a novel relation between Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and explicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using a coarse-graining method from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD). While the current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively studied in computer graphics to animate fluids with versatile effects. However, SPH still suffers from two numerical difficulties: the particle deficiency problem, which will…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xiaowei He , Huamin Wang , Guoping Wang , Hongan Wang , Enhua Wu

We describe the implementation and testing of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code that solves the equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the flux-limited diffusion (FLD) approximation. The SPH equations of radiation hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthew R. Bate

The Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a particle-based, meshfree, Lagrangian method used to simulate multidimensional fluids with arbitrary geometries, most commonly employed in astrophysics, cosmology, and computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Aurélien Cavelan , Rubén M. Cabezón , Michal Grabarczyk , Florina M. Ciorba

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH_ is a mesh-free Lagrangian method renowned for modeling large deformations and free-surface flows, yet classical formulations remain confined to deterministic systems. We introduce Stochastic SPH…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mridul Tiwari , Sawan Kumar , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam , Souvik Chakraborty

We study the consistency and convergence of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as a function of the interpolation parameters, namely the number of particles $N$, the number of neighbors $n$, and the smoothing length $h$, using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ruslan Gabbasov , Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Fidel Cruz , J. Klapp , J. M. Ramírez-Velasquez

Particle shifting techniques (PST) have been used to improve the accuracy of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Shifting ensures that the particles are distributed homogeneously in space. This may be performed by moving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh Adepu , Prabhu Ramachandran

We present a MATLAB code that implements the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The paper reviews the continuous Navier-Stokes equations as well as their SPH approximation, adopting a coherent notation that allows to make easy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-13 Marco Sutti

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

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