An approach for modelling thermo-mechanical responses in a 3D arc welding process is developed using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. It is demonstrated for a simple arc welding configuration by using full three-dimensional elastoplastic analysis. The flow pattern of the filler material and the resulting plastic strain distribution are analysed. The effect of welding speed on t...

Conservation of potential vorticity (PV) and Kelvin’s circulation theorem express two of the fundamental concepts in ideal fluid dynamics. In this note, we discuss these two concepts in the context of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. We show that, if interpreted in an appropriate way, one can make a statement about conservation of circulation and PV in a particle fluid model su...

The objective of the present study is to develop and investigate the swelling behavior of pH-sensitive Superporous Hydrogel (SPH) and SPH composite (SPHC). A novel superporous hydrogel containing poly (methacrylic acid-co-acrylamide) was synthesized from methacrylic acid and acrylamide through the aqueous solution polymerization, using N,N-methylenebisacrylamide as a crosslinker and ammonium pe...

Secretory type II phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is inhibited by sphingomyelin (SPH); cholesterol either mixed with the model glycerophospholipid substrate or added to the assay medium as separated liposomes counteracts this inhibition efficiently. The inhibition of fatty acid release assayed by quantitative gas chromatography-MS is observed when SPH is added to erythrocyte membranes as the substrate...

We present an application of SPH to saturated soil problems. Herein, the standard SPH formulation was improved to model saturated soil. It is shown that the proposed formulation could yield several advantages such as: it takes into account the pore-water pressure in an accurate manner, it automatically satisfies the dynamics boundary conditions between submerged soil and water, and it reduced t...

In this paper, the performance of the incompressible SPH (ISPH) method and an improved weakly compressible SPH (IWCSPH) method for free surface incompressible flows are compared and analyzed. In both methods, the Navier–Stokes equations are solved, and no artificial viscosity is used. The ISPH algorithm in this paper is based on the classical SPH projection method with common treatments on soli...

DQ Herculis was the Summer 1997 WET northernhemisphere primary target. The O − C phase diagram of the 71-s signal reveals out-of-eclipse phase variations resulting from the self eclipses of a nearly edge-on, non-axisymmetric disc. We work the forward problem of simulating DQ Herculis numerically using the method of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and from the time-averaged structure calc...

It is difficult to evaluate the sloshing load acting on a fixed roof of tank because it depends on the collision of the liquid to the roof. In this paper, the SPH simulation was introduced to evaluate the load acting on a fixed roof. The results obtained by the simulation showed good agreement with those obtained from other method. In addition, the effect of the roof-liquid clearance on the slo...

Much of the current focus in high performance computing (HPC) for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) deals with grid based methods. However, parallel implementations for new meshfree particle methods such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) are less studied. In this work, we present optimizations for both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) of a SPH method. The...

We report the measurement of the spin polarization of hydrogen (SPH) atoms by (2+1) laser-induced fluorescence, produced via the photodissociation of thermal HBr molecules with circularly polarized 193 nm light. This scheme, which involves two-photon laser excitation at 205 nm and fluorescence at 656 nm, offers an experimentally simpler polarization-detection method than the previously reported...