SPLASH: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations

By Daniel J. Price. Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, 2007

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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.

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Why are most molecular clouds not gravitationally bound (2011, methodology): “Some of the figures in this paper were produced using SPLASH (Price 2007), a visualization tool for SPH that is publicly available at http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/dprice/splash.”
Kinematic Evidence for an Embedded Protoplanet in a Circumstellar Disk (2018, unknown): “Software: CASA(McMullinetal.2007),phantom(Price et al. 2017), splash (Price 2007), mcfost (Pinte et al. 2006, 2009).”
Simulations of the grand design galaxy M51: a case study for analysing tidally induced spiral structure (2009, methodology): “Figures included in this paper were produced using SPLASH, a visualization package for SPH that is publicly available from http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/dprice/splash/ (Price 2007).”
On the diversity and statistical properties of protostellar discs (2018, methodology): “The rendering of the calculations discussed in the Appendices were produced using SPLASH (Price 2007), an SPH visualization tool publicly available at http://users.monash.edu.au/∼dprice/splash.”
Phantom: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysics (2017, methodology): “As a more extreme version of the shock test, Figures 10 and 11 shows the results of the blast wave problem from Monaghan (1997), set up initially with [ρ, P ] = [1, 1000] for x ≤ 0 and [ρ, P ] = [1.0, 0.1] for x > 0 and with γ = 1.4 (appropriate to air).”
Galactic winds driven by cosmic ray streaming (2012, methodology): “The rendered plots in this work were produced using the visualization tool SPLASH by Price (2007).”
The multimessenger picture of compact object encounters: binary mergers versus dynamical collisions (2012, methodology): “The SPH particles are placed in a close packed, hexagonal lattice configuration and they are subsequently relaxed so that they can find their true numerical equilibrium state, see section 3.1 of Rosswog & Price (2007).”
An improved SPH scheme for cosmological simulations (2015, methodology): “Rendered plots are created using the SPLASH software written by Daniel Price (see Price 2007).”
On the diffusive propagation of warps in thin accretion discs (2010, methodology): “The above procedure for computing the disc surface density has also been implemented as a feture in SPLASH(Price 2007).”
Comprehensive nucleosynthesis analysis for ejecta of compact binary mergers (2014, methodology): “into the equatorial plane) which are or will become gravitationally unbound while arrows indicate the corresponding velocities. The visualization tool SPLASH was used to convert SPH data to grid data [16]. Right: Abundance distributions as functions of the atomic mass for the dynamical ejecta of thr”
On the astrophysical robustness of the neutron star merger r-process (2012, methodology): “We acknowledge the use of the visualization software SPLASH developed by Daniel Price (2007).”
The energy and momentum input of supernova explosions in structured and ionized molecular clouds (2014, methodology): “The column density and temperature plots were made using the SPLASH visualization code (Price 2007).”
Disc formation from tidal disruptions of stars on eccentric orbits by Schwarzschild black holes (2015, methodology): “AC K N OW L E D G E M E N T S We acknowledge the use of SPLASH (Price 2007) for generating the figures.”
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (2010, methodology): “Next are the M5 quartic, truncated at 2.5h: w(q) = σ ( 5 2 − q )4 − 5 ( 32 − q)4 + 10 ( 12 − q)4 , 0 ≤ q 12”
Characterizing the gravitational instability in cooling accretion discs (2008, methodology): “We acknowledge the use of SPLASH (Price 2007) throughout this paper for the visualisation of surface densities.”
The electromagnetic signals of compact binary mergers (2012, methodology): “…do launch energetic subrelativistic and mildly relativistic outflows (e.g. Rosswog et al. 1999; Ruffert & Janka 2001; Rosswog 2005; Rosswog & Price 2007; Yamamoto, Shibata & Taniguchi 2008; Rezzolla et al. 2010), unless the equation of state at supranuclear densities is extremely soft…”
Evolution of binary black holes in self gravitating discs. Dissecting the torques (2012, unknown): “3 Plots made using SPLASH (Price 2007).”