Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods

DOI10.1111/J.1365-2966.2007.12183.XMaRDI QIDQ5198372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 6 August 2011

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610051

zbMATH Keywords

cloudsgalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: formationgalaxies: generalhydrodynamicsinstabilitiesnumerical methodsturbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

Abstract: 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 that are fundamentally important across many areas of astrophysics. Whilst Eulerian grid based methods are able to resolve and treat important dynamical instabilities, such as Kelvin-Helmholtz or Rayleigh-Taylor, these processes are poorly or not at all resolved by existing SPH techniques. We show that the reason for this is that SPH, at least in its standard implementation, introduces spurious pressure forces on particles in regions where there are steep density gradients. This results in a boundary gap of the size of the SPH smoothing kernel over which information is not transferred.

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• TREESPH
• GADGET

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