Voronoi particles
A group led by Pep Español has proposed a fluid particle model based on the Voronoi tessellation . This "fluid particle model" is similar to SPH, but the choice of volume for a particle is given naturally by the volume of its Voronoi cell.
References
- Mar Serrano and Pep Español "Thermodynamically consistent mesoscopic fluid particle model", Physical Review E 64 p. 046115 (2001)
- [http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/35/7/310 Mar Serrano, Gianni De Fabritiis2, Pep Español, Eirik G Flekkøy, and Peter V Coveney "Mesoscopic dynamics of Voronoi fluid particles", Journal of Physics A 35 pp. 1605-1625 (2001)
- Mar Serrano, Pep Español, and Ignacio Zúñiga "Voronoi Fluid Particle Model for Euler Equations", Journal of Statistical Physics 121 pp. 133-147 (2005)
- Pep Español and Mariano Revenga "Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics", Physical Review E 67 p. 026705 (2003)