Tests of Spurious Transport in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Details Tests of Spurious Transport in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Tests of Spurious Transport in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

1998-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807290v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

49 pages, 26 figures as 30 postscript files, submitted to The Journal of Computational Physics

Scientific paper

10.1006/jcph.1999.6256

We have performed a series of systematic tests to evaluate the effects of spurious transport in three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations. Our tests investigate (i) particle diffusion, (ii) shock heating, (iii) numerical viscosity, and (iv) angular momentum transport. The results are useful for quantifying the accuracy of the SPH scheme, especially for problems where shear flows or shocks are present, as well as for problems where true hydrodynamic mixing is relevant. We examine the different forms of artificial viscosity (AV) which have been proposed by Monaghan, by Hernquist & Katz, and by Balsara. For each form, our tests suggest a single set of values for the AV parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ (coefficients of the linear and quadratic terms) which are appropriate in a large number of situations. We also discuss how these parameters should be adjusted depending on the goals of the particular application. We find that both the Hernquist & Katz and Balsara forms introduce relatively small amounts of numerical viscosity. Furthermore, both Monaghan's and Balsara's AV do well at treating shocks and at limiting the amount of spurious mixing. For these reasons, we endorse the Balsara AV for use in a broad range of applications.

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