Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in computational fluid dynamics

  • type: practical course
  • semester: SS 2025
  • time:

    cancelled
  • lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
  • sws: 3
  • lv-no.: 2169452

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Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:

  • Create simulation examples using FreeCAD
  • Use DualSPHysics with GUI and via scripts
  • use PreonLab
  • Identify and evaluate possibilities and limitations of SPH
  • Simulate standard flow problems and flows with free surfaces

Course Content:

  • Introduction to Linux and to SPH
  • Geometry creation via FreeCAD
  • Simulation and analysis of floating objects
  • Channel flow and comparison with grid methods
  • Free surface flows
  • Film flows
  • Surface tension and contact angle

Prerequisites (V) & Recommendations (E):

  • V: Fluid Mechanics
  • E: Basic knowledge in LINUX
  • E: Lecture on computational fluid dynamics
  • E: Lecture "Numerical simulation of reacting two-phase flows