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A new 3D parallel SPH scheme for free surface flows Export

Computers & Fluids (03 December 2008)

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We propose a new robust and accurate SPH scheme, able to track correctly complex three-dimensional non-hydrostatic free surface flows and, even more important, also able to compute an accurate and little oscillatory pressure field. It uses the explicit third order TVD Runge–Kutta scheme in time, following Shu and Osher [Shu C-W, Osher S. Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes. J Comput Phys 1988;89:439–71], together with the new key idea of introducing a monotone upwind flux for the density equation, thus removing any artificial viscosity term. For the discretization of the velocity equation, the non-diffusive central flux has been used. A new flexible approach to impose the boundary conditions at solid walls is also proposed. It can handle any moving rigid body with arbitrarily irregular geometry. It does neither produce oscillations in the fluid pressure in proximity of the interfaces, nor does it have a restrictive impact on the stability condition of the explicit time stepping method, unlike the repellent boundary forces of Monaghan [Monaghan JJ. Simulating free surface flows with SPH. J Comput Phys 1994;110:399–406]. To asses the accuracy of the new SPH scheme, a 3D mesh-convergence study is performed for the strongly deforming free surface in a 3D dam-break and impact-wave test problem providing very good results. Moreover, the parallelization of the new 3D SPH scheme has been carried out using the message passing interface (MPI) standard, together with a dynamic load balancing strategy to improve the computational efficiency of the scheme. Thus, simulations involving millions of particles can be run on modern massively parallel supercomputers, obtaining a very good performance, as confirmed by a speed-up analysis. The 3D applications consist of environmental flow problems, such as dam-break flows and impact flows against a wall. The numerical solutions obtained with our new 3D SPH code have been compared with either experimental results or with other numerical reference solutions, obtaining in all cases a very satisfactory agreement.


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