Shock-capturing particle hydrodynamics with reproducing kernels

Abstract

We present and explore a new shock-capturing particle hydrodynamics approach. Our starting point is a commonly used discretization of smoothed particle hydrodynamics. We enhance this discretization with Roe's approximate Riemann solver, we identify its dissipative terms, and in these terms, we use slope-limited linear reconstruction. All gradients needed for our method are calculated with linearly reproducing kernels that are constructed to enforce the two lowest-order consistency relations. We scrutinize our reproducing kernel implementation carefully on a "glass-like" particle distribution, and we find that constant and linear functions are recovered to machine precision. We probe our method in a series of challenging 3D benchmark problems ranging from shocks over instabilities to Schulz-Rinne-type vorticity-creating shocks. All of our simulations show excellent agreement with analytic/reference solutions.

28 pages, 21 figures; accepted for publication in "Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences"

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