On the state-of-the-art of particle methods for coastal and ocean engineering

ABSTRACT

The article aims at providing an up-to-date review on several latest advancements related to particle methods with applications in coastal and ocean engineering. The latest advancements corresponding to accuracy, stability, conservation properties, multiphase multi-physics multi-scale simulations, fluid-structure interactions, exclusive coastal/ocean engineering applications and computational efficiency are reviewed. The future perspectives for further enhancement of applicability and reliability of particle methods for coastal/ocean engineering applications are also highlighted.

KEYWORDS:

• Particle methods
• projection method
• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
• Incompressible SPH
• Moving Particle Semi-implicit
• multiphase
• multi-physics
• multi-scale
• fluid-structure interactions
• floating bodies
• coastal hydrodynamics
• coastal sediment transport
• computational efficiency

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Andrea Colagrossi and Dr. Salvatore Marrone at CNR-INSEAN (The Italian Ship Model Basin), Dr. Benedict Rogers and Dr. Steven Lind at the University of Manchester, Dr. Alejandro Crespo at Universidade de Vigo, and Professor Shaowu Li and Mr. Yang Shi at Tianjin University for kindly providing figures related to their latest studies.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.