Numerical Simulation of Viscous Flow by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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Nov 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994pthph..92..939t&link_type=abstract

Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 92, No. 5, pp. 939-960.

Physics

53

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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is an effective numerical method to solve various problems, especially in astrophysics, but its applications have been limited to inviscid flows since it is considered not to yield ready solutions to fluid equations with second-order derivatives. Here we present a new SPH method that can be used to solve the Navier-Stokes equations for constant viscosity. The method is applied to two-dimensional Poiseuille flow, three-dimensional Hagen-Poiseuille flow and two-dimensional isothermal flows around a cylinder. In the former two cases, the temperature of fluid is assumed to be linearly dependent on a coordinate variable x along the flow direction. The numerical results agree well with analytic solutions, and we obtain nearly uniform density distributions and the expected parabolic and paraboloid velocity profiles. The density and velocity field in the latter case are compared with the results obtained using a finite difference method. Both methods give similar results for Reynolds number Re = 6, 10, 20, 30 and 55, and the differences in the total drag coefficients are about 2 ~ 4%. Our numerical simulations indicate that SPH is also an effective numerical method for calculation of viscous flows.

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