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SPLASH: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Daniel J. Price
Daniel J. Price*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK. Email: dprice@astro.ex.ac.uk
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Abstract

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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

hydrodynamicsmethods: numerical
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 2007 , pp. 159 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2007

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