Student Research Projects
in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
List of available research topics
Current projects
- Multi-phase flows with SPH. PhD student - Athanasios Mokos, Supervisors - Dr B Rogers & Prof PK Stansby
- Modelling the multi-phase flows in Nuclear Decommissioning using SPH. PhD student - Georgios Fourtakas, Supervisors - Dr B Rogers & Prof D Laurence
- Laser cutting with SPH. PhD student - Noorhafiza Muhammad, Supervisors - Prof L Li & Dr B Rogers
- Large Eddy Simulation with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. PhD student - Arno Mayhofer, Supervisors - Prof D Laurence & Dr B Rogers
- Laser Welding with SPH. PhD student - Sivasit Wittayasilp, Supervisors - Prof L Li & Dr B Rogers
Recently completed projects
- 2010 An Improved Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method and Its Application in Free-Surface Simulations - PhD student - Rui Xu - Supervisor Professor Peter Stansby
- 2010 Wave Loading on Bodies in the Free Surface Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). PhD student - P Omidvar, Supervisor Professor Peter Stansby & Dr B Rogers
- 2010 Unified semi-analytical wall boundary conditions for inviscid, laminar and turbulent slightly compressible flows in SPARTACUS-2D combined with an improved time integration scheme on the continuity equation. MPhil, student - M Ferrand, Supervisors - Prof D Laurence & Dr B Rogers
- 2007 Truly incompressible approach for computing incompressible flow in SPH and comparisons with the traditional weakly compressible approach. PhD student - Eun-Sug Lee, Supervisors - Prof D Laurence & Damien Violeau
- 2004 Numerical assessment of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics gridless method for incompressible flows and its extension to turbulent flows. PhD student - Reza Issa, Supervisors - Prof D Laurence