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SPH Modeling of Water-Related Natural Hazards

This paper collects some recent smooth particle hydrodynamic (SPH) applications in the field of natural hazards related to rapidly varied flows of both water and dense granular mixtures, including sediment erosion and bedload transport. The paper collects and outlines the basic aspects of certain relevant works dealing with flooding on complex topography, sediment runoff, rapid landslide dynamics and induced buoyancy waves.

In addition, the preliminary results are presented of a new study concerning the post-fault dynamics of shallow rainfall-induced landslides. The paper also shows the latest advances in the use of high-performance computing (HPC) techniques to accelerate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes through the ancient use of current computational resources. This is extremely important when simulating complex three-dimensional problems that require high computational cost and are generally involved in modeling water-related natural hazards of practical interest. The article provides an overview of some popular SPH free open source software (FOSS) codes applied to multiphase problems of theoretical and practical interest in the field of hydraulic engineering. The article aims to provide an overview of SPH modeling of certain relevant physical aspects involved in water-related natural hazards (e.g., sediment erosion and non-Newtonian rheology). Finally, it highlights the future prospects of SPH in this field of application.

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