Unsmoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

TL;DR

This paper introduces SPH-i, a new computational fluid dynamics method that eliminates the need for turbulence modeling by directly simulating the Navier-Stokes equations with a simple, high-order, particle-based approach.

Contribution

The paper presents SPH-i, a novel unsmoothed particle hydrodynamics method that requires no turbulence modeling and retains the simplicity of standard SPH while providing a more accurate continuum field reconstruction.

Findings

SPH-i does not require explicit turbulence modeling.

SPH-i retains the simple structure of standard SPH.

SPH-i can be implemented relatively easily.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new computational fluid dynamics method to be called unsmoothed particle hydrodynamics SPH$-i$ which makes few assumptions and makes no assumption beyond the Navier-Stokes equations. The most attractive feature when compared with standard smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is that no explicit turbulence modeling is required. Furthermore, despite being a high order model, it retains the same, simple structure as standard SPH. In this sense SPH$-i$ is a coarse-grained direct numerical simulation approach. In SPH, due the scale-dependence resulting from the convolution operator, all modes below the kernel cut-off length, are filtered out leading to loss of information. However, we conjecture that the SPH field, theoretically, still contains enough information so that the SPH$-i$ field is a restored form of the original underlying continuum field. Since two filters are required, a rigorous technique for constructing compatible convolution and deconvolution filters is presented. The SPH$-i$ model is relatively easy to implement.