arXiv · astro-ph/9611177
Force Error Optimization in Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics
Abstract
We discuss capability of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to represent adequately the dynamics of self-gravitating systems, in particular for what regards the quality of approximation of force fields in the motion equations. When cubic spline kernels are used, we find that a good estimate of the pressure field cannot be obtained in non uniform situations using the commonly adopted scheme of adapting the kernel sizes to include a fixed number of neighbours. We find that a fixed number of neighbours gives the best approximation of just the intensity of the force field, while the determination of the direction of the force requires a number of neighbours which strongly depends on the particle position.
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R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R. Di Lisio. 1996-11-22. Force Error Optimization in Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611177
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