Tricco, Terrence S. (Terrence Stansilaus) (2010) Simulation and visualisation of astrophysical plasmas with smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Abstract
A numerical implementation of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics has been developed using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Self gravitational forces have been included using the Barnes-Hut octree algorithm. A nearest neighbour search algorithm has been devised which links adjacent, spatially exclusive nodes from a spatial decomposition tree to create a mesh facilitating efficient searching. Visualisations of SPH fluids were created using Delaunay triangulation with particles serving as triangle vertices.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| URI: | http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/8927 |
| Item ID: | 8927 |
| Additional Information: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-123). |
| Department(s): | Science, Faculty of > Computer Science |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Date Type: | Submission |
| Library of Congress Subject Heading: | Magnetohydrodynamics--Computer simulation; Plasma astrophysics--Computer simulation |
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