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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree particle method for simulating fluid dynamics, developed independently by Lucy in 1977 and Gingold and Monaghan in 1977. Rather than discretizing on a fixed grid, SPH represents fluids as collections of particles that carry mass, momentum, and energy. Each particle interacts with neighbors within a kernel support radius, enabling natural handling of free surfaces, large deformations, and multiphase flows without remeshing. SPH has become indispensable for simulations involving violent flows, impacts, and complex interfaces.

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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / fluid-dynamics
  • Lucy, L. B. (1977). A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis. The Astronomical Journal, 82(12), 1013-1024. · DOI 10.1086/112164
  • Gingold, R. A., & Monaghan, J. J. (1977). Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and applications to non-spherical stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 181(3), 375-389. · DOI 10.1093/mnras/181.3.375
  • Monaghan, J. J. (2005). Smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Reports on Progress in Physics, 68(8), 1703-1759. · DOI 10.1088/0034-4885/68/8/R01
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