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Efficient Implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) with Plane Sweep Algorithm

Part of: Basic methods in fluid mechanics Equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application Numerical approximation and computational geometry Coupling of solid mechanics with other effects Algorithms - Computer Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2016

Dong Wang ,
Yisong Zhou  and
Sihong Shao
Dong Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China
Yisong Zhou
Affiliation:
LMAM and School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Sihong Shao*
Affiliation:
LMAM and School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
*
*Corresponding author. Email addresses:, wangdong11@fudan.edu.cn (D. Wang), failed.zys@gmail.com (Y. Zhou), sihong@math.pku.edu.cn (S. Shao)
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Abstract

Neighbour search (NS) is the core of any implementations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). In this paper,we present an efficient neighbour search method based on the plane sweep (PW) algorithm with N being the number of SPH particles. The resulting method, dubbed the PWNS method, is totally independent of grids (i.e., purely meshfree) and capable of treating variable smoothing length, arbitrary particle distribution and heterogenous kernels. Several state-of-the-art data structures and algorithms, e.g., the segment tree and the Morton code, are optimized and implemented. By simply allowingmultiple lines to sweep the SPH particles simultaneously from different initial positions, a parallelization of the PWNS method with satisfactory speedup and load-balancing can be easily achieved. That is, the PWNS SPH solver has a great potential for large scale fluid dynamics simulations.

Keywords

Smoothed particle hydrodynamicsmeshfreemethodneighbour searchplane sweep algorithmMorton codesegment treequadtreeparallelizationdam break

MSC classification

Secondary: 76M28: Particle methods and lattice-gas methods 74F10: Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) 35Q30: Navier-Stokes equations 68W05: Nonnumerical algorithms 65D18: Computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , March 2016 , pp. 770 - 800
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Copyright © Global-Science Press 2016 

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