Resolution requirements for simulating gravitational fragmentation using SPH

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20054100MaRDI QIDQ5477368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors D. A. Hubber, S. P. Goodwin, Anthony P. Whitworth

Publication date 3 July 2006

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512247

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodshydrodynamicsstarsformationinstabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: Jeans showed analytically that, in an infinite uniform-density isothermal gas, plane-wave perturbations collapse to dense sheets if their wavelength, $lambda$, satisfies $lambda>lambd{a}_{{}_{mJEANS}}=(pi{a}^2/Gh{o}_{{}_0}{)}^{1/2}$ (where $a$ is the isothermal sound speed and $h{o}_{{}_0}$ is the unperturbed density); in contrast, perturbations with smaller $lambda$ oscillate about the uniform density state. Here we show that Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics reproduces these results well, even when the diameters of the SPH particles are twice the wavelength of the perturbation. Our simulations are performed in 3-D with initially settled (i.e. non-crystalline) distributions of particles. Therefore there exists the seed noise for artificial fragmentation, but it does not occur. We conclude that, although there may be -- as with any numerical scheme -- `skeletons in the SPH cupboard', a propensity to fragment artificially is evidently not one of them.

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