Swift : a modern highly parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications

M Schaller, J Borrow, PW Draper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of
astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest …

Sphenix: smoothed particle hydrodynamics for the next generation of galaxy formation simulations

J Borrow, M Schaller, RG Bower… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the
fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and …

The impact of stochastic modelling on the predictive power of galaxy formation simulations

J Borrow, M Schaller, YM Bahé, J Schaye… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
All modern galaxy formation models employ stochastic elements in their sub-grid
prescriptions to discretize continuous equations across the time domain. In this paper, we …

The importance of black hole repositioning for galaxy formation simulations

YM Bahé, J Schaye, M Schaller… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs)
is an essential ingredient of galaxy formation simulations. The orbital evolution of SMBHs is …

EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of galaxies

E Altamura, ST Kay, RG Bower… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with a variety of codes
systematically predict large amounts of entropy in the intra-cluster medium at low redshift …

Osaka feedback model. ii. modeling supernova feedback based on high-resolution simulations

Y Oku, K Tomida, K Nagamine… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Feedback from supernovae (SNe) is an essential mechanism that self-regulates the growth
of galaxies, and a better model of SN feedback is still needed in galaxy-formation …

Modelling multiphase gases in cosmological simulations using compressible multifluid hydrodynamics

R Weinberger, L Hernquist - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multiphase state: small, cold gas
clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a …

Resolution criteria to avoid artificial clum** in Lagrangian hydrodynamic simulations with a multiphase interstellar medium

S Ploeckinger, FSJ Nobels, M Schaller… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale cosmological galaxy formation simulations typically prevent gas in the
interstellar medium (ISM) from cooling below. This has been motivated by the inability to …

Sensitivity of non-radiative cloud–wind interactions to the hydrodynamic solver

J Braspenning, J Schaye, J Borrow… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cloud–wind interactions are common in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Many
studies have used simulations of such interactions to investigate the effect of particular …

Osaka Feedback Model. III. Cosmological Simulation CROCODILE

Y Oku, K Nagamine - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce our new cosmological simulation data set CROCODILE, executed using the
GADGET4-Osaka smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. This simulation incorporates an …