D.A. Barcarolo

Adaptive particle refinement and derefinement applied to the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method

SPH simulations are usually performed with a uniform particle distribution. New techniques have been recently proposed to enable the use of spatially varying particle distributions, which encouraged the development of automatic adaptivity and particle refinement/derefinement algorithms. All these efforts resulted in very interesting and promising procedures leading to more efficient and faster SPH simulations. In this article, a family of particle refinement techniques is reviewed and a new derefinement technique is proposed and validated through several test cases involving both free-surface and viscous flows. Besides, this new procedure allows higher resolutions in the regions requiring increased accuracy. Moreover, several levels of refinement can be used with this new technique, as often encountered in adaptive mesh refinement techniques in mesh-based methods.

Next-generation Multi-mechanics Simulation Engine in a Highly Interactive Environment

We describe the development of a highly interactive approach to simulation of engineering multi-mechanics problems, using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics mesh-free method as the computational engine, for applications including ship survival, medical devices and Pelton turbines.

Aframax in Numerical Wave Tank: From Classic Decay Test to the Ship Moored in Irregular Waves

The prediction of ship motions in extreme seastates is very complex as it involves strong nonlinearities. It deals with high motions of the ship and implies strong mooring system loads. These seastates are usually modeled in tank tests but an alternative in the near future could be CFD computations. In this article, all required steps to setup and verify the hydrodynamic and numerical model are performed. The setup of the hydrodynamic and numerical model enable us to show that CFD computations of motion RAOS and pitch decay tests provide results in agreement with diffraction-radiation results. Wave only simulations enable us to verify that irregular waves are accurately modelled in the CFD domain. Since the wavemaker motion used in tank tests to generate irregular waves is not available, a process of linear back propagation is set up from the wave elevation on a wave probe in tank tests. High Order Spectral (HOS) simulations are performed to reproduce the seastate measured in tank tests. Finally, a test was performed to model the ship motions in irregular extreme waves with ICARE solver coupled to the computed HOS wave field through Spectral Wave Explicit Navier Stokes Equations (SWENSE).

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: benchmarking on selected test cases within the NextMuSE initiative

In this paper are presented comparisons of SPH variants on academic test cases classically used to validate numerical fluid dynamics software. These comparisons are extracted from NextMuSE FP7 project activities which will be published more extensively in the near future. One of the goals of this project was to better understand the SPH method and to leave the path to its establishment within CFD methods. An important work load was thus dedicated to benchmark SPH variants on selected test cases.A number of results and conclusions of this comparative study are presented in this paper. The studied variants are: standard weekly-compressible SPH, δ-SPH, Riemann-SPH, incompressible SPH, and FVPM. The majority of the test cases also present a reference solution, either experimental or computed using a mesh-based solver. Test cases include: wave propagation, flow past a cylinder, jet impact, floating body, bubble rise, dam break on obstacle, floating body dynamics, etc. Conclusions may help SPH practitioners to choose one variant or another and shall give detailed understanding necessary to derive further improvements of the method.Copyright