SPheRIO

Presentation and history

Introduction

What is the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)?

The SPH algorithm was first introduced for astrophysical applications, and later the method was extended to heavy ion collisions by the use of the variational approach. The main references for the SPH method in heavy ion collisions are

C.E. Aguiar, T. Kodama, T. Osada and Y. Hama, J. Phys. G 27 (2001) 75;
T. Kodama, C.E. Aguiar, T. Osada and Y. Hama, J. Phys. G 27 (2001) 557.

What is SPheRIO?

SPheRIO is the code which implements the entropy representation of the SPH model for relativistic high-energy collisions. It has investigated and developed within the S˜ao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro Collaboration. A general overview of SPheRIO can be found in