SPH PhDs
Here you will find a list & link of Doctoral theses on SPH that are now available online organised by year. Some of the links will take you the website of the university/institute of the student and are not hosted by SPHERIC. If you want your PhD thesis on SPH to appear online, please email the webmaster.
Note: If you are searching for a vacant PhD position, please see the SPH Jobs page.
2018
- Md Lokman Hosain: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Simulations for Complex Industrial Applications: From Reynolds Averages Navier-Stokes towards Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Mälardalen University.
- Moisés Gonçalves de Brito: Numerical modeling and experimental testing of an oscillating wave surge converter, Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa.
- Tim Verbrugghe: Coupling Methodologies for Numerical Modelling of Floating Wave Energy Converters, Universiteit Gent.
- Alex Chow: Incompressible SPH (ISPH) on the GPU, University of Manchester.
2017
- Mashy David Green: Sloshing simulations with the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, Imperial College London.
- Laurent Chiron: Couplage et améliorations de la méthode SPH pour traiter des écoulements à multi- échelles temporelles et spatiales, Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
- Iason Zisis: From Continuum Mechanics to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Shocks through Inhomogeneous Media, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
- Alex Ghaitanellis: Modelling bed-load sediment transport through a granular approach in SPH, Universite Paris-Est.
- Edgar Andres Patiño Nariño: Modelagem Numérica de microfluídica através do Método Lagrangeano sem malha Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
2016
- José Luis Cercós Pita: A novel generalized diffusive SPH model: Theoretical analysis and 3D HPC implementation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
- Angelantonio Tafuni: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: development and application to problems of hydrodynamics, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.
2015
- Benjamin Bouscasse: Dynamic interactions between solids and viscous liquids with free surface, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
- Ricardo Canelas: Numerical modeling of fully coupled solid-fluid flows, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico.
- Patrick Jonsson: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics of Hydraulic Jumps in Spillways, Lulea University of Technology.
- Domenico Davide Meringolo: Weakly-compressible SPH modeling of fluid-structure interaction problems, Università della Calabria.
2014
- Georgios Fourtakas: Modelling multi-phase flows in Nuclear Decommissioning using SPH, University of Manchester.
- Arno Mayrhofer: An Investigation into Wall Boundary Conditions and Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, University of Manchester. Mirror link
- José Domínguez: DualSPHysics: Towards High Performance Computing using SPH technique, Universidade de Vigo. Mirror link
- Swapnadip de Chowdhury: SPH Simulation of Nonlinear Water Waves, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Mirror link
- Agnes Leroy: A New Incompressible SPH Model: Towards Industrial Applications, Université Paris-Est.
- Jannes Kordilla: Flow and transport in saturated and unsaturated fractured porous media: Development of particle-based modeling approaches, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Mirror link
- Carlos Alberto Dutra Fraga Filho: (in Portugese) Study of Gravity-Inertial Phase of Spreading of Oil on a Calm Sea employing the Lagrangian Particle Method Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, (Abstract in English), Federal University of Espírito Santo, Federal Institute of Espírito Santo.
- Christos Makris: (In Greek) Numerical Simulation of Coastal Wave Processes with the Use of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Method, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- Naoki Tsuruta: Improved Particle Method with High-Resolution and Computational Stability for Solid-Liquid Two-Phase Flows, Kyoto University. Mirror link
2013
- Athanasios Mokos: Multi-phase Modelling of Violent Hydrodynamics Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), University of Manchester.
- Daniel Barcarolo: Improvement of the precision and the efficiency of the SPH method: theoretical and numerical study, Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
- Christian Ulrich: Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics Simulation of Port Hydrodynamic Problems, Technische Universitat Hamburg Harburg (TUHH). Mirror link
2012
- Abdelraheem Mahmoud Aly: An Improved Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to Simulate Fluid-Soil-Structure Interactions, Kyushu University.
2011
- Salvatore Marrone: Enhanced SPH modeling of free-surface flows with large deformations, University of Rome, La Sapienza.
2010
- Jules B. Kajtar: Smooth lattice general relativity, and SPH simulations of swimming linked bodies, Monash University.
- Renato Vacondio: Shallow Water and Navier-Stokes SPH-like numerical modelling of rapidly varying free-surface flows, Università degli Studi di Parma Facoltà di Ingegneria.
- Ivan Federico: Simulating Open-channel Flows and Advective Diffusion Phenomena through SPH Model, Università della Calabria.
- Pourya Omidvar: Wave Loading on Bodies in the Free Surface Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), University of Manchester.
2009
- Tatiana Capone: SPH numerical modelling of impulse water waves generated by landslides, University of Rome, La Sapienza.
- Martin Robinson: Turbulence and Viscous Mixing using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Monash University. Mirror link.
- Nicolas Grenier: Numerical modelisation by SPH method of water-oil separation in gravity separators, Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
2008
- Muthu. Narayanaswamy: A Hybrid Boussinesq-SPH Wave Propagation Model with Applications to Forced Waves in Rectangular Tanks, The Johns Hopkins University.
- Louis Delorme: Sloshing Flows. Experimental Investigation and numerical investigations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Universidad Politenica de Madrid.
2007
- Shan Zou: Coastal Sediment Transport Simulation by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, The Johns Hopkins University.
- J.A. Mansour: SPH and alpha-SPH: Applications and Analysis, Monash University. Mirror link.
- R. Ata: Development of particle methods for the resolution of free surface flows (in French), Ecole de Technologie de Supérieure, Université de Quebec, (43MB).
2006
- Jonathan Feldman: Dynamic refinement and boundary contact forces in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with applications in fluid flow problems., University of Wales Swansea. Mirror link
- Guillaume Oger: Theoretical aspects of the SPH method and application to free surface problems in hydrodynamics. (In French), Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
2005
- Andrea Colagrossi: A Meshless Lagrangian Method for free-surface and Interface Flows with Fragmentation, University of Rome, La Sapienza (45MB).
- Gareth Llewellyn Vaughan: Simulating Breaking Waves Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, University of Waikato, New Zealand.