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Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Abteilungen Theoretische Astrophysik / Computational Physics

Auf der Morgenstelle 10 C, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Office: Tel.: +49-(0)7071-29 75468 Fax: +49-(0)7071-29 5889

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Publications of the research group on
Numerical Particle Methods

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Articles in Refereed Journals

Articles in Conference Proceedings etc.

Diploma- and PhD-Theses

• R. J. Geretshauser, F. Meru, R. Speith, W. Kley: The four-population model: a new classification scheme for pre-planetesimal collisions. Astron. & Astroph. 531, A166 - A170, 2011.
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• R. J. Geretshauser, R. Speith, C. Güttler, M. Krause, J. Blum: Numerical simulations of highly porous dust aggregates in the low-velocity collision regime. Implementation and calibration of a smooth particle hydrodynamics code. Astron. & Astroph. 513, A58 - A76, 2010.
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• S. Børve, R. Speith, J. Trulsen: Numerical Dissipation in RSPH Simulations of Astrophysical Flows with Application to Protoplanetary Disks. Astrophysical Journal 701, 1269 - 1282, 2009.
  Preprint: PDF (1.4 MB)

• C.Güttler, M. Krause, R. J. Geretshauser, R. Speith, J. Blum: The Physics of Protoplanetesimal Dust Agglomerates. IV. Towards a Dynamical Collision Model. Astrophysical Journal 701, 130 - 141, 2009.
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• C. Schäfer, R. Speith, W. Kley: Collisions between equal sized ice grain agglomerates. Astron. & Astroph. 470, 733 - 739, 2007.
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• O.M. Matthews, R. Speith, G.A. Wynn, R.G. West: Magnetically moderated outbursts of WZ Sagittae. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 375, 105 - 114, 2007.
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• M. de Val-Borro, R.G. Edgar, P. Artymowicz, P. Ciecielag, P. Cresswell, G. D'Angelo, E.J. Delgato-Donate, G. Dirksen, S. Fromang, A. Gawryszczak, H. Klahr, W. Kley, W. Lyra, F. Masset, G. Mellema, R. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, A. Peplinski, A. Pierens, T. Plewa, K. Rice, C. Schäfer, R. Speith: A comparative study of disc-planet interaction. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 370, 529 - 558, 2006.
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• S. Rosswog, R. Speith, G.A. Wynn: Accretion dynamics in neutron star-black hole binaries Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 351, 1121 - 1133, 2004.
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• C. Schäfer, R. Speith, M. Hipp, W. Kley: Simulations of planet-disc interactions using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Astron. & Astroph. 418, 325 - 335, 2004.
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• O.M. Matthews, R. Speith, G.A. Wynn: Outbursts of young stellar objects. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 347, 873 - 884, 2004.
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• R. Speith, W. Kley: Stability of the viscously spreading ring. Astron. & Astroph. 399, 395 - 407, 2003.
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• Stefan Kunze, Roland Speith, Frederic V. Hessman: Substantial stream-disc overflow found in three-dimensional SPH simulations of cataclysmic variables. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 322 499 - 514, 2001.
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• S. Siegler, H. Riffert: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of Ultrarelativistic Shocks with Artificial Viscosity. Astrophys. Journal 531, 1053 - 1066, 2000.
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• H. Riffert: The Dynamics of a Viscous Gas Ring around a Kerr Black Hole. Astrophys. Journal 529, 119 - 126, 2000.
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• R. Speith, H. Riffert: The viscous gas ring as an astrophysical test problem for a viscous SPH-code. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 109, 231 - 242, 1999.
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• S. Kunze, R. Speith, H. Riffert: Reproducing superhumps and gamma-shifts of SU UMa stars with SPH simulations. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 289, 889 - 897, 1997.
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• H. Riffert, H. Herold, O. Flebbe, H. Ruder: Numerical aspects of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for simulating accretion disks. Comp. Phys. Comm. 89, 1 - 16, 1995.
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• O. Flebbe, S. Münzel, H. Herold, H. Riffert, H. Ruder: SPH: Physical Viscosity and the Simulation of Accretion Disks. Astroph. J. 431, 754 - 760, 1994.
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• S.E. Arena, R. Speith: Pore surface energy corrected P-alpha like models and the anomalous behaviour of porous materials. In: G.~Bertin, F.~De Luca, G.~Lodato, R.~Pozzoli, M.~Rom{\'e} (eds.): Plasmas in the Laboratory and the Universe: Interactions, Patterns, and Turbulence, AIP Conference Proceedings 1242, p. 294 - 299, 2010.
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• C. Güttler, M. Krause, R. Geretshauser, R. Speith, J. Blum: Towards a Dynamical Collision Model of Highly Porous Dust Aggregates. In: M. Nakagawa and S. Luding (eds.): Powders & Grains 2009, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media. p. 941 - 944, 2009.
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• S. Børve, R. Speith, M. Omang, J. Trulsen: Challenges related to particle regularization in SPH. In: Crespo, Gómez-Gesteira, Souto-Iglesias, Delorme, Grassa (eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop SPHERIC - Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics European Research Interest Community. Second International Workshop. p. 67 - 70, 2007.
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• S. Kunze, R. Speith: SPH Simulations of the 2:1 Resonance in Accretion Disks. In: J.M. Hameury, J.P. Lasota (eds.): The astrophysics of cataclysmic variables and related objects ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 330, 389 - 390, 2005.
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• C. Schäfer, R. Speith, R. Günther, W. Kley: Impact Simulations with SPH. In: Astron. Nachr./AN 325, p. 84, Suppl. Issue 1, 2004. Abstract P10 of the Annual Scientific AG Meeting 2004.

• C. Schäfer, R. Speith, R. Günther, W. Kley: Simulations of Planet-Disc Interactions with SPH. In: Astron. Nachr./AN 325, p. 85, Suppl. Issue 1, 2004. Abstract P10 of the Annual Scientific AG Meeting 2004.

• M. Hipp, S. Kunze, M. Ritt, W. Rosenstiel, H. Ruder: Fast parallel particle simulations on distributed memory architectures. In: E. Krause, W. Jäger (eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2001, Springer 2002, p. 485 - 499.
  

• R. Speith, S. Kunze: Three-dimensional SPH simulations of stream-disc overflow in cataclysmic variables. In: B. T. Gänsicke, K. Beuermann, K. Reinsch (eds.): The Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 261, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002, p. 551 - 552.
  Preprint: PostScript (gzip) (340 kB. Unzipped: 1.2 MB)

• S. Kunze: SPH simulations of late superhumps. In: B. T. Gänsicke, K. Beuermann, K. Reinsch (eds.): The Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 261, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002, p. 497 - 498.
  

• E. Schnetter, S. Kunze, R. Speith: Fluid Jet Simulations using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. In: E. Krause, W. Jäger (eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2000, Springer 2001, p. 99 - 113.
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• S. Kunze, E. Schnetter, R. Speith: Development and Astrophysical Applications of a Parallel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Code with MPI. In: E. Krause, W. Jäger (eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '99, Springer 2000, p. 52 - 61.
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• Stefan Kunze, Erik Schnetter, Roland Speith: Applications of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method: The Need for Supercomputing. In: D. Keyes, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka, P. Fox (eds.): Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, Towards Teraflops, Optimization and Novel Formulations. Proceedings of PARCFD99, the Parallel CFD'99 Conference, Elsevier 2000, p. 289 - 295.
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• Roland Speith, Stefan Kunze: 3D-SPH Simulations of Accretion Discs. New Astronomy Reviews 44, P23 - P24, 2000. In: Proceedings of Cataclysmic Variables, a 60th Birthday Symposium in Honour of Brian Warner, Oxford, 12 - 16 April 1999.
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• T. Bubeck, M. Hipp, S. Hüttemann, S. Kunze, M. Ritt, W. Rosenstiel, H. Ruder, R. Speith: SPH test simulations on a portable parallel environment. In: Werner Kluge (ed.): PII'99 - Physics and Computer Science, Proceedings of the Workshop Physik Informatik Informationstechnik, Heidelberg, March 15 - 16 1999, p. 139 - 155.

• R. Speith, E. Schnetter, S. Kunze, H. Riffert: Distributed Implementation of SPH for Simulations of Accretion Disks. In: R. Esser, P. Grassberger, J. Grotendorst, M. Lewerenz (eds.): Molecular Dynamics on Parallel Computers, World Scientific, 2000, p. 276 - 285. (Proceedings of the Workshop at the John von Neumann-Institut for Computing (NIC), Research Centre Jülich, 8 - 10 February 1999.)
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• Roland Speith, Harald Riffert, and Hanns Ruder: Numerical Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. In: High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing, H.-J. Bungartz, F. Durst, and Chr. Zenger (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer 1999, p. 417 - 430. (Proceedings of the International FORTWIHR-Conference, March 1998.)
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• T. Bubeck, M. Hipp, S. Hüttemann, S. Kunze, M. Ritt, W. Rosenstiel, H. Ruder, R. Speith: Parallel SPH on Cray T3E and NEC SX-4 using DTS. In: E. Krause, W. Jäger (eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '98, Springer 1999, p. 396 - 409.
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• Alexander Seizinger: Numerical Simulation of Particle Agglomerates. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2010.
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• Marco Beas: Untersuchung alternativer Teilchen-Verfahren höherer Konsistenzordnung. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2009.

• Ralf Geretshauser: Modifying, Testing and Calibrating a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Code for Simulations of Planetesimal Growth. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2006.
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• Daria Adis: Korrigierte Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics und Anwendungen in der Astrophysik. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2005.
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• Christoph Schäfer: Application of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to selected Aspects of Planet Formation. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2005.
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• Steffen Holtwick: Simulation von Diesel-Einspritzung mit Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics auf dem Linux-Cluster Kepler. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2001.
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• Matthias Kunle: Entwicklung und Untersuchung von Moving Least Square Verfahren zur numerischen Simulation hydrodynamischer Gleichungen. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2001.
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• Harald König: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics auf Linux-Cluster Kepler. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2001.
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• Christoph Schäfer: Simulation von protoplanetaren Scheiben mit Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2001.
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• Raphael Dannecker: Modellierung des heißen Flecks auf Akkretionsscheiben mit Hilfe der Methode der Finiten Massen. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2001.
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• Oliver Dräger: Implementierung der Oberflächenspannung in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics zur Simulation der Dieseldirekteinspritzung. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2000.
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• Stefan Kunze: Numerische Simulationen von Akkretionsscheiben in Kataklysmischen Variablen mit Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2000.
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• Steffen Siegler: Entwicklung und Untersuchung eines Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics-Verfahrens für relativistische Strömungen. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2000.
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• Frank Ott: Weiterentwicklung und Untersuchung von Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics im Hinblick auf den Zerfall von Dieselfreistrahlen in Luft. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1999.
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• Lars Ruoff: Computersimulation von Zwerg-Nova-Ausbrüchen mit SPH-Methoden. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1999.
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• Roland Speith: Untersuchung von Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics anhand astrophysikalischer Beispiele. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1998.
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• E. Schnetter: Untersuchung zur Implementierung von Strahlungstransport im SPH-Formalismus. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1998.
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• S. Siegler: Modellierung des Hot Spot bei Kataklysmischen Variablen mittels Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1997.

• S. Münzel: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics und ihre Anwendung auf Akkretionsscheiben. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1996.

• S. Kunze: Simulation von Superausbrüchen von SU-UMa-Sternen mit Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1996.

• S. Hüttemann: Methoden zur Parallelisierung von Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1996.

• A. Brandl: TREE-Codes zur Berechnung der Eigengravitation astrophysikalischer Objekte bei Particle-Methoden. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1996.

• F. Ott: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Grundlagen und Tests eines speziellen Ansatzes für viskose Wechselwirkungen. Diplomarbeit, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1995.
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• P. Kroll: Dreidimensionale Simulationen zirkumstellarer Strukturen in Symbiotischen Doppelsternen und Be-Sternen mit der Methode der Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics auf Parallelrechnern. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1995.

• O. Flebbe: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Modellierung von Superhump-Lichtkurven. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1994.