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ABSTRACT: We present results based on an implementation of the Godunov Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics (GSPH), originally developed by Inutsuka (2002), in the
GADGET-3 hydrodynamic code. We first review the derivation of the GSPH
discretization of the equations of moment and energy conservation, starting
from the convolution of these equations with the interpolating kernel. The two
most important aspects of the numerical implementation of these equations are
(a) the appearance of fluid velocity and pressure obtained from the solution of
the Riemann problem between each pair of particles, and (b the absence of an
artificial viscosity term. We carry out three different controlled
hydrodynamical three-dimensional tests, namely the Sod shock tube, the
development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in a shear flow test, and the
"blob" test describing the evolution of a cold cloud moving against a hot wind.
The results of our tests confirm and extend in a number of aspects those
recently obtained by Cha (2010): (i) GSPH provides a much improved description
of contact discontinuities, with respect to SPH, thus avoiding the appearance
of spurious pressure forces; (ii) GSPH is able to follow the development of
gas-dynamical instabilities, such as the Kevin--Helmholtz and the
Rayleigh-Taylor ones; (iii) as a result, GSPH describes the development of curl
structures in the shear-flow test and the dissolution of the cold cloud in the
"blob" test.
We also discuss in detail the effect on the performances of GSPH of changing
different aspects of its implementation. The results of our tests demonstrate
that GSPH is in fact a highly promising hydrodynamic scheme, also to be coupled
to an N-body solver, for astrophysical and cosmological applications.
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05/2011;
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Angelo Antonelli,
Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu,
Andrea Baruffolo,
Stefano Benetti,
Simone Bianchi,
Andrea Biviano,
Annalisa Bonafede,
Marco Bondi,
Stefano Borgani,
Angela Bragaglia, [......],
Tiziano Valentinuzzi,
Eros Vanzella,
Franco Vazza,
Alberto Vecchiato,
Tiziana Venturi,
Giacomo Vianello,
Matteo Viel,
Alvaro Villalobos,
Valentina Viotto,
Benedetta Vulcani
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ABSTRACT: On May 27th 2010, the Italian astronomical community learned with concern that the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) was going to be suppressed, and that its employees were going to be transferred to the National Research Council (CNR). It was not clear if this applied to all employees (i.e. also to researchers hired on short-term contracts), and how this was going to happen in practice. In this letter, we give a brief historical overview of INAF and present a short chronicle of the few eventful days that followed. Starting from this example, we then comment on the current situation and prospects of astronomical research in Italy. Comment: Also available at http://adoptitaastronom.altervista.org/index.html
07/2010;
