Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-08-06
Astrophys.J.697:L99-L102,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 4 figures, ApJL accepted
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/L99
We show that the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, used with individual time-steps in the way described in the literature, cannot handle strong explosion problems correctly. In the individual time-step scheme, particles determine their time-steps essentially from a local Courant condition. Thus they cannot respond to a strong shock, if the pre-shock timescale is too long compared to the shock timescale. This problem is not severe in SPH simulations of galaxy formation with a temperature cutoff in the cooling function at $10^4 {\rm K}$, while it is very dangerous for simulations in which the multiphase nature of the interstellar medium under $10^4 {\rm K}$ is taken into account. A solution for this problem is to introduce a time-step limiter which reduces the time-step of a particle if it is too long compared to the time-steps of its neighbor particles. Thus this kind of time-step constraint is essential for the correct treatment of explosions in high-resolution SPH simulations with individual time-steps.
Makino Junichiro
Saitoh Takayuki R.
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