Presentation
The article on the implementation of the meshless hydrodynamic solver has been accepted for publication on MNRAS ( Alonso Asensio et al. )
We extended the comological simulation code PKDGRAV3 ( Potter et al. 2017 ) to include a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic solver. This is based on the meshless finite mass/finite volume algorithms described in Lanson & Vila (2008), Gaburov & Nitadori (2011) and Hopkins (2015). We also provide a galaxy formation model including sub-grid recipes for gas cooling, star formation, supernova feedback, stellar evolution and metal enrichment, black hole growth and feedback. The numerical implementation follows that of EAGLE (Schaye et al. 2015). We also provide different choices for some of the sub-grid models.
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