Phantom: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

Daniel J. Price, James Wurster, Terrence S. Tricco, Chris Nixon, Stéven Toupin, Alex Pettitt, Conrad Chan, Daniel Mentiplay, Guillaume Laibe, Simon Glover, Clare Dobbs, Rebecca Nealon, David Liptai, Hauke Worpel, Clément Bonnerot, Giovanni Dipierro, Giulia Ballabio, Enrico Ragusa, Christoph Federrath, Roberto IaconiThomas Reichardt, Duncan Forgan, Mark Hutchison, Thomas Constantino, Ben Ayliffe, Kieran Hirsh, Giuseppe Lodato

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Abstract

We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applications in three dimensions. The code has been developed with a focus on stellar, galactic, planetary and high energy astrophysics and has already been used widely for studies of accretion discs and turbulence, from the birth of planets to how black holes accrete. Here we describe and test the core algorithms as well as modules for magnetohydrodynamics, self-gravity, sink particles, H_2 chemistry, dust-gas mixtures, physical viscosity, external forces including numerous galactic potentials as well as implementations of Lense-Thirring precession, Poynting-Robertson drag and stochastic turbulent driving. Phantom is hereby made publicly available.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere031
JournalPublications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Volume35
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sept 2018

Bibliographical note

88 pages, 60 figures, accepted to PASA. Code available from https://phantomsph.bitbucket.io/

Keywords

  • astro-ph.IM
  • astro-ph.EP
  • astro-ph.GA
  • astro-ph.HE
  • astro-ph.SR

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