We present a brief introduction to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics SPH where we focus on an approach to treat the physical viscosity Additionally we describe in detail the basic principles of our parallel implementation of the SPH method In the second part we summarise some results of test simulations performed to achieve general features of the method and we end discussing some astrophysical a...

The hydrodynamics of collisions and mergers of main-sequence stars is discussed in the light of recent 3-D calculations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Theoretical models for the formation of blue stragglers are reviewed in the context of recent comparisons between the observed properties of blue stragglers in dense globular clusters and the predictions of those models.

-A two-component smectic undergoing a demixing tran~ition to two coexisting smectic pha~es exhibits a novel spinodal pattern as observed by light ~cattering and optical microscopy. We show that this ~pinodal, characterized by a prescribed angle between the mo~t intense wavevectors and the layer normal, is the result of the instability of the baroclinic mode of two-cojnponent smectic hydrodynamics.

We show that discreteness effects related to classical two-body relaxation produce spurious heating of the gaseous component in numerical simulations of galaxy formation. A simple analytic calculation demonstrates that this artificial heating will dominate radiative cooling in any simulation where the mass of an individual dark matter particle exceeds a certain critical value. This maximum mass...

Neutrons stars are believed to contain in their interior superfluid neutrons and superconducting protons. This is suggested by nuclear physics calculations and by the very long relaxation time scales after ‘glitches’ (sudden increases of the neutron star angular velocity). Over the last years, we have been developing a formalism that can describe the relativistic hydrodynamics of mixtures of su...

During the harvesting of polymetallic nodules on seabed, sediment plume due to disturbance seabed impacts benthic ecosystem. A numerical simulation based SPH (smooth particle hydrodynamics) method is used estimate time and length scale impact near during a small-scale process. The result considerably agrees with one from lab-scale water-channel experiment. It found that, in plume, traced sub-pl...