Tsunamis, open channel flows, dam breaks, levee breaches, and water waves are all examples of free surface flows that are characterized by breaking, splashing, and large scale turbulence. These types of flows are readily described with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), a mesh-free particle numerical method. For approximately fifteen years, this method has proven to be a robust method of analyzing these flows; however, most results are based on small numbers of particles with low resolution. The advances in parallel computing and GPU computing has led to the use of large numbers of particles and the ability to obtain higher resolution results.
Introduction
Purpose
This meeting is primarily focused on validating SPH using high-quality data sets for representative 2D and 3D flows as well as discussing new developments in SPH. The data sets page provides participants links to data sets for the various benchmark comparisons along with the necessary experimental conditions. You are encouraged to model as many of these benchmark problems as you wish and to present your results. It is the intention of the organizers that the meeting will spur comparisons to data and will emphasize the ability of SPH to handle these free surface flow problems. NOTE: new problems are still being added and participants are also encouraged to present on other data sets as well.
Agenda
The first part of the workshop will be devoted to data set comparisons. They will be grouped by the experiment. The remainder of the workshop will be devoted to papers relating to new developments in SPH and its application.