von Neumann stability analysis of smoothed particle hydrodynamics -- suggestions for optimal algorithms (Q1903805)

We present a von Neumann stability analysis of the equations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) along with a critical discussion of various parts of the algorithm. The stability analysis is done without any major restrictions and, hence, models the full Euler equations in one dimension. This allows us to deduce optimal ranges for parameters that needed to be used in SPH. We show that for the commonly used \(M_5\) spline, the ratio of smoothing length to interparticle distance should range between 1.0 to 1.4. We also show that the linear artificial viscosity coefficient and the coefficient of spatial filtering are bounded.