Meshless Methods for Water Dynamics and Complex Flows
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 5835
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CFD; meshless methods; high-order methods
Interests: CFD; computational aeroacoustics; complex fluid flows
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Dear Colleagues,
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is with no doubt a fundamental tool in both science and engineering. It is ubiquitous in almost any research or design involving fluid flows. Historically, mesh-based methods have been the ones that have received the largest research efforts. However, meshless methods are a promising tool to solve some of the drawbacks of mesh-based methods. In particular, mesh generation is currently one of the most significant bottlenecks in CFD applications, since generally the mesh generation phase constitutes the dominant cost in terms of both human intervention and time. In this framework, meshless methods are specially suited for problems with large deformations of the computational domain. In the context of CFD, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is the most widely used meshless method for flow simulations. Unfortunately, this method currently presents some important drawbacks, which have been a serious barrier to its widespread use. Thus, the lack of accuracy, low convergence order, and inaccurate definition of boundary conditions are the kinds of drawbacks that the new generation of meshless methods has to overcome. This Special Issue is devoted to any development in the field of meshless methods, with special focus on SPH methods for complex fluid flow applications. Any new, original research articles involving these developments, or hybrid mesh-based and meshless methods, or engineering applications of meshless methods in complex fluid flows are welcome, as are review articles about these topics.
Dr. Xesús Nogueira
Prof. Sofiane Khelladi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Meshless methods
- Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
- Kernel approximations
- Lagrangian methods
- Complex fluid flow applications
- Numerical methods
- CFD
