Computational simulations are becoming increasingly important engineering tool in recent years. One of the new computational techniques are the meshless methods, covering several application fields in engineering. In this paper the meshless Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method (SPH) is introduced and its implementation in the explicit code LS-DYNA is discussed. Then the application of the SPH method is presented with two practical examples. The first example deals with the modelling of sloshing problem in a reservoir, where the fluid has been analysed using different numerical techniques. The computational results were compared to and validated with the experimental measurements. The second example describes the fluid flow through the open network of cellular structure with the purpose to study its influence on capability of the impact energy absorption. In both examples the SPH method proved to be an effective and reliable tool.
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Vesenjak, M., Ren, Z. (2009). Application of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method in Engineering Problems. In: Ferreira, A.J.M., Kansa, E.J., Fasshauer, G.E., Leitão, V.M.A. (eds) Progress on Meshless Methods. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8821-6_16
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