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von Neumann stability analysis of smoothed particle hydrodynamics—suggestions for optimal algorithms
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We present a von Neumann stability analysis of the equations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) along with a critical discussion of various parts of the algorithm. The stability analysis is done without any major restrictions and, hence, models the full Euler equations in one dimension. This then allows us to deduce optimal ranges for parameters that need to be used in SPH. Thus we show that for the commonly used M5 spline the ratio of smoothing length to interparticle distance should range between 1.0 to 1.4. We also show that the linear artificial viscosity coefficient and the coefficient of spatial filtering have to be bounded. The results of this von Neumann stability analysis provide us with several suggestions for future algorithm improvement. Because the SPH method is so unique we provide, wherever possible, comparisons with more familiar and well-used high resolution finite difference methods.
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- Balsara, D. S.
- Venue
- Journal of Computational Physics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-10
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 357-372
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- 0021-9991 (ISSN-L)
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- W2030304981
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