Improving smoothed particle hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculating gradients

Details Improving smoothed particle hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculating gradients Improving smoothed particle hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculating gradients

2011-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3261v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics; minor changes due to language editing

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In this paper we develop and test a fully conservative SPH scheme based on a tensor formulation that can be applied to simulate astrophysical systems. In the proposed scheme, derivatives are calculated from an integral expression that leads to a tensor (instead of a vectorial) estimation of gradients and reduces to the standard formulation in the continuum limit. The new formulation improves the interpolation of physical magnitudes, leading to a set of conservative equations that resembles those of standard SPH. The resulting scheme is verified using a variety of well-known tests, all of them simulated in two dimensions. We also discuss an application of the proposed tensor method to astrophysics by simulating the stability of a Sun-like polytrope calculated in three dimensions.

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