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A new SPH-based approach to simulation of granular flows using viscous damping and stress regularisation

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The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method was recently extended to simulate granular materials by the authors and demonstrated to be a powerful continuum numerical method to deal with the post-flow behaviour of granular materials. However, most existing SPH simulations of granular flows suffer from significant stress oscillation during the post-failure process, despite the use of an artificial viscosity to damp out stress fluctuation. In this paper, a new SPH approach combining viscous damping with stress/strain regularisation is proposed for simulations of granular flows. It is shown that the proposed SPH algorithm can improve the overall accuracy of the SPH performance by accurately predicting the smooth stress distribution during the post-failure process. It can also effectively remove the stress oscillation issue in the standard SPH model without having to use the standard SPH artificial viscosity that requires unphysical parameters. The predictions by the proposed SPH approach show very good agreement with experimental and numerical results reported in the literature. This suggests that the proposed method could be considered as a promising continuum alternative for simulations of granular flows.

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Funding support from the Australian Research Council via projects LP13010088 and DP160100775 (Ha H. Bui), DP140100945 and FT140100408 (Giang D. Nguyen), from Monash Civil Engineering via RTSI project (Ha H. Bui and Chi T. Nguyen) and from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) via project VNM11010 (Cuong T. Nguyen) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

    Cuong T. Nguyen & Ryoichi Fukagawa

  2. Institute of Mechanics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

    Cuong T. Nguyen

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Chi T. Nguyen & Ha H. Bui

  4. School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Giang D. Nguyen

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Nguyen, C.T., Nguyen, C.T., Bui, H.H. et al. A new SPH-based approach to simulation of granular flows using viscous damping and stress regularisation. Landslides 14, 69–81 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-016-0681-y

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