Let's talk about #SmoothedParticleHydrodynamics (#SPH for short, even though you'll see #sph_ used on other sites, because #SPH also has a very common, very not-safe-for-work meaning …).

Why should we talk about it? Because it's relatively less known than other numerical methods, possibly undeservingly so, and because I love it.

So what is it? SPH is a Lagrangian meshless numerical method primarily used for #ComputationalFluidDynamics (and more recently also #ComputationalMechanics).