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Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

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We suggest a novel discretisation of the momentum equation for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and show that it significantly improves the accuracy of the obtained solutions. Our new formulation which we refer to as relative pressure…

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A height-function-based numerical approach is developed for enforcing contact angles on flat and curved solid surfaces within two-dimensional volume-of-fluid simulations. This method incorporates the contact line position into the curvature…

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Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Yang Xu , Peng-Nan Sun , Xiao-Ting Huang , Salvatore Marrone , Lei-Ming Geng

Grid based fluid simulation methods are not able to monolithically capture complex non-linear dynamics like the rupture of a dynamic liquid bridge between freely colliding solids, an exemplary scenario of capillary forces competing with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Prapanch Nair , Thorsten Poeschel

We present a robust and efficient method for simulating Lagrangian solid-fluid coupling based on a new operator splitting strategy. We use variational formulations to approximate fluid properties and solid-fluid interactions, and introduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Tianyi Xie , Minchen Li , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Analysing data from Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations is about understanding global fluid properties rather than individual fluid elements. Therefore, in order to properly understand the outcome of such simulations it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Röttgers , Alexander Arth

Starting from the single graphics processing unit (GPU) version of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code DualSPHysics, a multi-GPU SPH program is developed for free-surface flows. The approach is based on a spatial decomposition…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 Daniel Valdez-Balderas , José M. Domínguez , Benedict D. Rogers , Alejandro J. C. Crespo

Modeling contact mechanics with high contrast coefficients presents significant mathematical and computational challenges, especially in achieving strongly symmetric stress approximations for mixed formulations. Due to the inherent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Eric T. Chung , Hyea Hyun Kim , Xiang Zhong

Transport and mixing of gas species are of particular interest in planetary environments, where interactions among multiple species can occur within confined or porous media. In this work, we present a novel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Maggioni , Matteo Teodori , Gianfranco Magni , Michelangelo Formisano , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Francesca Altieri

We propose a novel method to reconstruct the 3D shapes of transparent objects using hand-held captured images under natural light conditions. It combines the advantage of explicit mesh and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network, a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jiamin Xu , Zihan Zhu , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

Mathematical modeling of cardiac function can provide augmented simulation-based diagnosis tool for complementing and extending human understanding of cardiac diseases which represent the most common cause of worldwide death. As the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Chi Zhang , Jianhang Wang , Massoud Rezavand , Dong Wu , Xiangyu Hu

We propose a sharp and conservative 3D numerical method for simulating moving contact lines on complex geometries, developed within a coupled geometric Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) and embedded boundary framework. The first major contribution is a…

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The article proposes an algorithm to model the collision between arbitrary ellipsoids in viscous fluid. It is composed of several steps, each improving upon the standard procedure employed in the current literature. First, an efficient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-11 Ramandeep Jain , Silvio Tschisgale , Jochen Fröhlich

Particle shifting techniques (PST) have been used to improve the accuracy of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Shifting ensures that the particles are distributed homogeneously in space. This may be performed by moving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh Adepu , Prabhu Ramachandran

First, a meshless simulation method is presented for multiphase fluid-particle flows with a two-way coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) for the fluid and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) for the solid phase. The unresolved fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-28 Martin Robinson , Stefan Luding , Marco Ramaioli

We present 3D Points Splatting Hand Reconstruction (3D-PSHR), a real-time and photo-realistic hand reconstruction approach. We propose a self-adaptive canonical points upsampling strategy to achieve high-resolution hand geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zheheng Jiang , Hossein Rahmani , Sue Black , Bryan M. Williams

We present a fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

This paper describes a novel approach to neighbour-finding in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations with large dynamic range in smoothing length. This approach is based on hierarchical cell decompositions, sorted interactions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Pedro Gonnet , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns , Aidan B. G. Chalk

This paper presents a divergence cleaning formulation for the velocity in the weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme. The proposed hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning, ensures that the velocity divergence,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-01 Georgios Fourtakas , Renato Vacondio , Benedict D. Rogers