A robust weakly compressible SPH method and its comparison with an incompressible SPH

Shadloo, Mostafa Safdari and Zainali, Amir and Yıldız, Mehmet and Suleman, Afzal (2012) A robust weakly compressible SPH method and its comparison with an incompressible SPH. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 89 (8). pp. 939-956. ISSN 0029-5981 (print) ; 1097-0207 (online)

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Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study for the weakly compressible (WCSPH) and incompressible (ISPH) smoothed particle hydrodynamics methods by providing numerical solutions for fluid flows over an airfoil and a square obstacle. Improved WCSPH and ISPH techniques are used to solve these two bluff body flow problems. It is shown that both approaches can handle complex geometries using the multiple boundary tangents (MBT) method, and eliminate particle clustering-induced instabilities with the implementation of a particle fracture repair procedure as well as the corrected SPH discretization scheme. WCSPH and ISPH simulation results are compared and validated with those of a finite element method (FEM). The quantitative comparisons of WCSPH, ISPH and FEM results in terms of Strouhal number for the square obstacle test case, and the pressure envelope, surface traction forces, and velocity gradients on the airfoil boundaries as well as the lift and drag values for the airfoil geometry indicate that the WCSPH method with the suggested implementation produces numerical results as accurate and reliable as those of the ISPH and FEM methods.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH); meshless method; bluff-body; airfoil flow; square obstacle problem; vortex shedding
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Materials Science & Eng.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Mehmet Yıldız
Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2012 10:30
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:51
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/17904

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