CiteULike is a free online bibliography manager. Register and you can start organising your references online.

Dissipative forces for Lagrangian models in computational fluid dynamics and application to smoothed-particle hydrodynamics Export

Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), Vol. 80, No. 3. (2009), 036705.

Citation Format

[Posts]

View FullText article


SPHERIC's tags for this article

dissipation hamiltonian kernel sph viscosity

X Reviews [Write a review of this article]

X Find related articles from these CiteULike users

X Find related articles with these CiteULike tags

X Posting History

X Abstract

An investigation of dissipative forces for Lagrangian computational fluid dynamics is conducted from Hamiltonian considerations including energy dissipation for macroscopic systems. It is shown that discrete forces must fulfill particular rules to be in agreement with the fundamentals of Physics. Those rules are specified in the case of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical approach, leading to a clear treatment of friction forces in connection with energy dissipation. In particular, it is proved that the kernel function, which is at the heart of interpolation in SPH, must satisfy some constraints in order to be consistent with the dissipative properties of a real fluid. A numerical example is given to illustrate the abovementioned considerations.


X BibTeX record

X RIS record


Privacy Statement | Terms & Conditions
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral (postdoc) positions. The service is similar in scope to EndNote or RefWorks or any other reference manager like BibTeX, but it is a social bookmarking service for scientists and humanities researchers.