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This paper proposes and validates two new particle regularization techniques for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method to improve its stability and accuracy for free surface flow simulations. We introduce a general form…
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We propose a novel method to quantify artificial dissipation in large eddy simulation. Here, artificial dissipation is defined as the residual of the discrete turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) equation. This method is applied to turbulent…
The simulation of turbulent flows remains a central challenge, as even our most powerful computers cannot resolve the finest scales of motion in many flows of practical interest. As a result, the effects of unresolved scales on large eddies…
Mesh-free methods have significant potential for simulations of flows in complex geometries, with the difficulties of domain discretisation greatly reduced. However, many mesh-free methods are limited to low order accuracy. In order to…
A semi-implicit, residual-based variational multiscale (VMS) formulation is developed for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The approach linearizes convection using an extrapolated (Oseen-type) convecting velocity, producing a…
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We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…
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