“SPH modelling in coastal engineering”
Dr. Alejandro J. C. Crespo, EPHYSLAB, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Friday, November 24, 2017 – 9.30-10.30
Aula 107 – Scuola di Ingegneria, via di Santa Marta 3, Firenze
Abstract
The numerical modelling represents a useful and complementary tool to
physical model tests.
Sophisticated tools are now at a formative stage and here we are
actively developing the novel, flexible numerical technique Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH).
As a meshless and Lagrangian technique, SPH is ideally suited to fluid
and solid mechanics with highly nonlinear deformation and is opening new
avenues of activity in several areas,
notably fluid-structure interaction, multi-phase flows and importantly,
engineering application and design.
SPH describes a fluid by replacing its continuum properties with locally
smoothed quantities at discrete Lagrangian locations.