Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Expert Group
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SPH is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of computational fluid dynamics. This meshless method is opening up the possibility of research into fields that were well beyond any modelling capability but are now being actively pursued such as violent free-surface flows.
The method predicts fluid pressure, velocities, energy and particle trajectories for many types of flows making it ideal for
SPH now represents a viable method for simulating complicated flows that are highly non-linear, have large deformation and often involve complex free-surface motions. |
Group members
Academic staff
Membership: Prof Dominique Laurence, Prof Lin Li, Dr Stephen Longshaw, Dr Alex Skillen, Prof Peter Stansby, Dr Valeriy N Titarenko
Postgraduate Research Students
Athanasios Mokos, Georgios Fourtakas, Noorafiza Muhammad, Arno Mayrhofer.
Visitors
| Dr Alex Crespo, Prof Moncho Gomez Gesteira, Jose Dominguez | Universidade de Vigo, Spain | Core SPHysics developers, development of SPH for free-surface flows, GPUs | ||
| Dr Renato Vacondio | University of Parma, Italy | Developing SPH solver of Shallow Water Equations (SWE-SPHysics) | ||
| Damien Violeau | EDF, France | Co-supervisor or Arno Mayrhofer | ||
| Dr Corrado Altomare | Universitat Politécnica de Cataluya (UPC), Spain | Modelling of breakwaters using SPH |