Abstract: An artificial viscosity is presented for Lagrangian hydrodynamics method.The formulation is based on artificial viscosity first presented by Lew.It contains a limiter switching off viscosity for shockless compression.The artificial viscosity reduces dependence of solution on relation of grid to flow structure.The eigenvalue viscosity limiter controls magnitude of the artificial viscosity.By the limiter it is able to distinguish between adiabatic compression and shock compression.The formulation is applicable to any dimensions and to logically rectangular or unstructured grids.

Key words: artificial viscosity, shock, Lagrangian formulation, computing methods