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The Cosmological Simulation Code OpenGadget3 -- Implementation of Meshless Finite Mass

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arxiv 2301.03612 v2 pith:RRYEMIUT submitted 2023-01-09 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.COphysics.comp-phphysics.flu-dyn

The Cosmological Simulation Code OpenGadget3 -- Implementation of Meshless Finite Mass

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Subsonic turbulence plays a major role in determining properties of the intra cluster medium (ICM). We introduce a new Meshless Finite Mass (MFM) implementation in OpenGadget3 and apply it to this specific problem. To this end, we present a set of test cases to validate our implementation of the MFM framework in our code. These include but are not limited to: the soundwave and Kepler disk as smooth situations to probe the stability, a Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability as popular mixing instabilities, a blob test as more complex example including both mixing and shocks, shock tubes with various Mach numbers, a Sedov blast wave, different tests including self-gravity such as gravitational freefall, a hydrostatic sphere, the Zeldovich-pancake, and a $10^{15}M_{\odot}$ galaxy cluster as cosmological application. Advantages over SPH include increased mixing and a better convergence behavior. We demonstrate that the MFM-solver is robust, also in a cosmological context. We show evidence that the solver performs extraordinarily well when applied to decaying subsonic turbulence, a problem very difficult to handle for many methods. MFM captures the expected velocity power spectrum with high accuracy and shows a good convergence behavior. Using MFM or SPH within OpenGadget3 leads to a comparable decay in turbulent energy due to numerical dissipation. When studying the energy decay for different initial turbulent energy fractions, we find that MFM performs well down to Mach numbers $\mathcal{M}\approx 0.01$. Finally, we show how important the slope limiter and the energy-entropy switch are to control the behavior and the evolution of the fluids.

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