Multi-phase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)

I studied the suitability of SPH for studying stratified flow for my Masters’ thesis. I worked with and contributed to PySPH for this work. The complete thesis pdf file can be downloaded/viewed here. The following topics are discussed in detail in the thesis:

• Surface tension implementation in SPH

• Viscosity discontinuity implementation in SPH

• Interfacial instabilities

• Numerical stability

Some interfacial instabilities simulated with SPH as part of the thesis:

• Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability