a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t We present a methodology to concurrently couple particle-based methods via a domain decomposition (DD) technique for simulating viscous flows. In particular, we select two resolutions of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method as demonstration. Within the DD framework, a simulation domain is decomposed into two (or more) overlapping sub-domains, ea...

We present a meshless simulation method for multiphase fluid-particle systems using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM). Rather than fully resolving the interstitial fluid, which is often infeasible, we use an unresolved fluid model based on the locally averaged Navier Stokes equations. A variable-h SPH formulation is used to calculate the fluid phase, wh...

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as a Lagrangian, meshfree method, is supposed to be useful in solving acoustic problems, such as combustion noise, bubble acoustics, etc., and has been gradually used in sound wave computation. However, unphysical oscillations in the sound wave simulation cannot be ignored. In this paper, an artificial viscosity term is added into the standard SPH algorith...

This paper presents the first method for isosurface extraction from smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) data that is exact with respect to the functional representation provided by SPH. The Marching Correctors algorithm is an extension of the Marching Cubes algorithm which is adapted to the SPH representation and avoids resampling to a full grid. The algorithm operates on a virtual grid of su...

Because sphingosine (Sph) is actively incorporated into platelets and rapidly converted to sphingosine 1-phosphate (Sph-1-P), which is then released extracellularly, it is important to study the effects of Sph and Sph-1-P on endothelial cells from the viewpoint of platelet-endothelial cell interaction. In this study, we found that Sph, as well as ceramide, induces apoptosis in human umbilical v...

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method was introduced by Lucy [20] and Gingold and Monaghan [21]. Its first application was in the field of star formation, where it was used to study whether or not a rapidly-rotating polytrope could undergo fission to form a close binary system [20, 22]. Since this initial application, SPH has been widely used in the study of star formation,...

In this paper, a 3D Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulator for modeling grain scale fluid flow in porous rock is presented. The versatility of the SPH method has driven its use in increasingly complex areas of flow analysis, including flows related to porous rock for both groundwater and petroleum reservoir research. Previous approaches to such problems using SPH have involved the use of...

Sphingosine 1-phosphate (Sph-1-P) has been implicated as an intracellular second messenger in many studies. We investigated the metabolism of Sph-1-P and the mechanism by which Sph-1-P induces activation in enucleated and highly differentiated platelets. Platelets lack Sph-1-P lyase activity, possess persistently active sphingosine (Sph) kinase, and abundantly store Sph-1-P. Although exogenous ...

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is a Lagrangian approach that has been widely used to eliminate numerical dispersion for solving advection-dispersion equation (ADE) of groundwater solute transport under advection-dominated situations. It found accuracy SPH results severely deteriorated, when particles are irregularly distributed in model domain with heterogeneous hydraulic cond...