Planetary Simulations
SWIFT is also designed for running planetary simulations such as of giant impacts, as introduced in Kegerreis+2019, and any other types of simulations with more complicated equations of state and/or multiple materials, etc.
Active development is ongoing of more features and examples, so please let us know if you are interested in using SWIFT or have any implementation requests.
You can find an example simulation in swiftsim/examples/Planetary/
under EarthImpact/
, as well as some hydro tests for comparison with other
schemes. The tabulated equation of state files can be downloaded using
EoSTables/get_eos_tables.sh
.
Planetary simulations are currently intended to be run with
SWIFT configured to use the planetary hydrodynamics scheme and equations of state:
--with-hydro=planetary
and --with-equation-of-state=planetary
.
These allow for multiple materials to be used,
chosen from the several available equations of state.
More information: