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splash: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations

Daniel J. Price

School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK. Email: dprice@astro.ex.ac.uk


Abstract

This paper presents splash, a publicly available interactive visualisation tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. Visualisation of SPH data is more complicated than for grid-based codes because the data are defined on a set of irregular points and therefore requires a mapping procedure to a two dimensional pixel array. This means that, in practise, many authors simply produce particle plots which offer a rather crude representation of the simulation output. Here we describe the techniques and algorithms which are utilised in splash in order to provide the user with a fast, interactive and meaningful visualisation of one, two and three dimensional SPH results.

Keywords: hydrodynamics — methods: numerical

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 24(3) 159–173    doi:10.1071/AS07022
Submitted: 19 June 2007    Accepted: 31 August 2007    Published: 25 October 2007





   
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