Freefall collapse test

The freefall collapse test is a simple test of the accuracy of the gravitational forces during the freefall collapse of a cold, uniform-density sphere. A uniform-density sphere in cold collapse (i.e. gravity only with no hydro forces) will collapse homologously in exactly a freefall time to an infintiely dense point.


Freefall test

FREEFALL-GRADH-BH

  • 3-dimensions
  • 'grad-h' SPH formulation
  • No hydro forces
  • 2nd order Leapfrog kick-drift-kick integration scheme
  • Global timesteps
  • Barnes-Hut tree gravity