DualSPHysics Guidelines for Earth Scientists

DualSPHysics¹ is a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver used to solve the fundamental equations of fluid dynamics, the Navier-Stokes equations. Among the modern SPH solvers available, there are many advantages to choosing DualSPHysics, most notably the optimization of the code for GPU parallel processing. Running the DualSPHysics code on a GPU vastly decreases solution times, thereby allowing high-resolution and/or large-domain cases to be executed efficiently.

Researchers in the UMaine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute began using DualSPHysics v3.1 in 2014 to investigate the kinematics of icebergs.

References Cited

¹Crespo, A.J.C., Domínguez, J.M., Rogers, B.D., Gómez-Gesteira, M., Longshaw, S., Canelas, R., Vacondio, R., Barreiro, A., and García-Feal, O., 2015, DualSPHysics: Open-source parallel CFD solver based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH): Computer Physics Communications, v. 187, p. 204–216, doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2014.10.004.