For a general description of our activities, please check the ERCOFTAC SIG40 Description Webpage. Records of the meetings of the Steering Committee can be found on the SC_meetings page.

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Upcoming Events and Activities:​​

• SPH-SIG/CCP-WSI Joint Meeting, Bristol, UK, 3 November 2023

• Particle Methods and Applications Conference, Santa Fe NM, United States, 22-24 January 2024

• 7th DualSPHysics Workshop, Bari, Italy, 20-21 March 2024

• 18th International SPHERIC Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 18-20 June 2024

• 2024 SPHERIC Zhuhai International Workshop, Zhuhai, China, 18-20 October 2024

• 19th International SPHERIC Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2025

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Past Events and Activities:

2023

• SPH Online V, 5th Online International Workshop on SPH (focus topic: SPH & Industry), 6 October, 2023, 8:00-11:10 UTC

• Particles Course 2023, Milan, Italy, 7-8 October 2023

• VIII International Conference on Particle-Based methods (PARTICLES 2023), Milan, Italy, 9-11 October 2023

• Course on SPH modelling of WECs and structures for coastal protection, Salerno, Italy, ​28-29 September 2023

• 3rd Hands-On Course on Experimental and Numerical Modelling, Florence, Italy, 10-14 July 2023

• 17th International SPHERIC Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, 27-29 June 2023 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day). For a list of the keynote presentations, please see the page SPHERIC 2023 Keynotes.

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2022

• Short course on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical methods, University of Parma, Italy, 21 Nov - 01 Dec 2022

• 6th DualSPHysics Workshop, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 25-27 October 2022

• 16th International SPHERIC Workshop, University of Catania, Italy, 7-9 June 2022 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day). For a list of the keynote presentations, please see the page SPHERIC 2022 Keynotes. 
• 2022 SPHERIC Xi'an International Workshop, North Western Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China, 28 March - 1 April 2022

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2021

• Virtual course on Smoothed particle Hydrodynamics numerical methods, University of Parma, Italy, 5 -15 October 2021

• PARTICLES COURSE 2021, Short Course on Particle Based Methods in Engineering and Applied Science, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany, 2-3 October 2021.

• DIVE 2021 USER CONFERENCE, Munich, 13-14 September 2021.

• Online workshop SPH Online III, 6 September 2021

• 15th International SPHERIC Workshop, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, United States, 8-11 June 2021 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day). For a list of the keynote presentations, please see the page SPHERIC 2021 Keynotes.

• Virtual 5th DualSPHysics Users Workshop, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 March 2021.

• Online workshop SPH Online II, 29 March 2021: programme, video1 and video2.

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2020

• Focus Session on "SPH and Mesh Free Methods" at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, 22-24 November 2020.

• Virtual course on Smoothed particle Hydrodynamics numerical methods, University of Parma, Italy, 19 - 22 October 2020.

• 2020 SPHERIC Harbin International Workshop, Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China, 13-16 January 2020.

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2019

• UK Fluids Network SPH Special Interest Group meetings: i) SPH & Industry, Brunel University, Cambridge, 10 July 2019; ii) SPH: Greatest Hits (so far), Durham University. 28-29 November 2019. 

• Focus Session on SPH at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), Seattle, US, 23-26 November 2019.

• PARTICLES 2019, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 28-30 October 2019: includes the sessions "Engineering Applications with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics" and "New advances on SPH method: Algorithms and Applications".

• Short course on DualSPHysics: a SPH-based method for engineering. University of Salerno, Italy, 5-6 September 2019.

• 14th International SPHERIC Workshop, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 25-27 June 2019 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day). For a list of the keynote presentations, please see the page SPHERIC 2019 Keynotes.

• Short course on Smoothed particle Hydrodynamics numerical methods, University of Parma, Italy, 19-21 February 2019.

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2018

• 4th DualSPHysics Users Workshop, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, 22-24 October 2018.

• 13th International SPHERIC Workshop, National University of Ireland, GALWAY, Ireland, 26-28 June 2018 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day).

• 5th IAHR Europe Congress, University of Trento, Italy, 12-14 June 2018: includes the session “Alternative numerical methods for free-surface flows".

• The Joe Monaghan Prize 2018.

• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) 2-day CPD Course, University of Manchester, UK,  April 2018. 

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2017

• 12th International SPHERIC Workshop, Universidade de Vigo, OURENSE, Spain, 13-15 June 2017 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day). Keynote presentation available here.

• 2017 SPHERIC Beijing International Workshop, Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China, 17-20 October 2017. Keynote presentation available here.

• 3rd DualSPHysics Users Workshop, University of Parma, Italy, 13-15 November 2017.

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2016

• Multiphase flows in SPH, University of Parma, 20 May 2016.

• 11th International SPHERIC Workshop, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 14-16 June 2016 (including 1-day SPHERIC Training Day).

• 2nd DualSPHysics Users Workshop, University of Manchester, U.K., 6-7 December 2016.

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2015

• 1st DualSPHysics Users Workshop, University of Manchester, U.K., 8-9 September 2015

• 10th International SPHERIC Workshop, University of Parma, Italy, 16-18 June, 2015. Keynote presentation available here.

• The Joe Monaghan Prize established to recognize SPH researchers who make outstanding advances in one or more SPHERIC Grand Challenges (convergence, numerical stability, boundary conditions, and adaptivity) has been awarded to Dr Andrea Colagrossi.

 

2014

• 9th International SPHERIC Workshop, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France, 3-5 June, 2014. Keynote presentation available here, Abstracts from Proceedings.

• Flanders Hydraulics SPH Workshop, 7th February 2014 at Flanders Hydraulics Research, Berchemlei 115, 2140, Antwerp, Belgium.

• 2-day short course on SPH, University of Manchester, 23-24 January 2014.

 

2013

• GPUSPH Training Day, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, 10 December 2013.

• UK Meshless Methods Network: SPH - Grand Challenges and State-of-the-art for Industrial Applications, University of Manchester, 10th October 2013.

• 8th International SPHERIC Workshop, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway, 4-6 June, 2013. Keynote presentations available here and here. Abstracts from Proceedings.

• 2-day short course on SPH, University of Manchester, 24-25 January 2013.

 

2012

• 7th International SPHERIC Workshop, University of Monash, Prato Campus, Italy, 29-31 May, 2012, (Training Day 1st June 2012). Keynote presentation available here, Abstracts from Proceedings.

• 2-day short course on SPH, University of Manchester, 2-3 February 2012.

 

2011

• 6th International SPHERIC Workshop, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, 8-11 June 2011. Keynote presentations available here and here. Abstracts from Proceedings.

• 2-day short course on SPH, University of Manchester, 7-8 April 2011.

 

2010

• 2nd UK Astrophysics SPH Forum, University of Manchester, UK, 21-22 June 2010.

• 5th International SPHERIC Workshop, University of Manchester, UK, 23-25 June 2010. Keynote presentation available here. Abstracts from Proceedings.

• 2-day short course on SPH, University of Manchester, 8-9 April 2010.

 

2009

• 1st UK Astrophysics SPH Forum , Nottingham, UK, 19-20 August 2009.

• 4th International SPHERIC Workshop, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France, 26-29 May 2009. Keynote presentations available here, here and here. Abstracts from Proceedings.

 

2008

• 3rd International SPHERIC Workshop, 4-6 June 2008, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Keynote presentations available here, here and here. Abstracts from Proceedings.

 

2007

• Special session on SPH at IAHR Congress, Venice 2007, to download the papers, click here.

• 2nd International SPHERIC Workshop, May 2007, Madrid. Keynote presentations available here and here.

 

2006

• 1st International SPHERIC Workshop, May 2006, Rome.

 

2005

• Inaugural Meeting, Oct. 2005, EDF, Chatou, France.