A state-of-the-art review of experimental and computational studies of granular materials: properties, advances, challenges, and future directions

P Tahmasebi - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

An overview of debris-flow mathematical modelling

MG Trujillo-Vela, AM Ramos-Cañón… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Debris flows are among the most catastrophic natural phenomena, attracting the interest of
researchers, engineers and government agencies. The complexity of the physical process …

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its applications in geomechanics: From solid fracture to granular behaviour and multiphase flows in porous media

HH Bui, GD Nguyen - Computers and Geotechnics, 2021 - Elsevier
We present the fundamental concepts of SPH with particular emphasis on its state-of-the-art
applications in geomechanics and geotechnical engineering. In the first part of the paper, we …

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

CT Nguyen, CT Nguyen, HH Bui, GD Nguyen… - Landslides, 2017 - Springer
The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method was recently extended to simulate
granular materials by the authors and demonstrated to be a powerful continuum numerical …

[HTML][HTML] A coupled fluid-solid SPH approach to modelling flow through deformable porous media

HH Bui, GD Nguyen - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a computational framework based on the mesh-free smoothed particle
hydrodynamics (SPH) method is developed to study the coupled behaviour of fluid and solid …

[HTML][HTML] Development of free-field and compliant base SPH boundary conditions for large deformation seismic response analysis of geomechanics problems

TN Hoang, HH Bui, TT Nguyen, TV Nguyen… - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Earthquake-induced geohazards are natural disasters that have the potential to cause
severe damage to infrastructure and endanger human lives. To mitigate these natural …

Numerical investigation of the mechanism of granular flow impact on rigid control structures

E Yang, HH Bui, GD Nguyen, CE Choi, CWW Ng… - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
Baffles and check-dam systems are often used as granular flow (rock avalanches, debris
flows, etc.) control structures in regions prone to dangerous geological hazards leading to …

LOQUAT: an open-source GPU-accelerated SPH solver for geotechnical modeling

C Peng, S Wang, W Wu, H Yu, C Wang, J Chen - Acta Geotechnica, 2019 - Springer
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshless method gaining popularity recently
in geotechnical modeling. It is suitable to solve problems involving large deformation, free …

Slope stability and post-failure analysis of soil-rock-mixture using the modified 2D DDA-SPH method

C Li, G Chen, L Guo, J Gao, X Peng, P Yu - International Journal of Rock …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Soil-rock-mixture (SRM), consisting of high-strength rock blocks and low-strength
soil, is widely distributed in nature. In traditional methods such as limit equilibrium methods …

A general SPH framework for transient seepage flows through unsaturated porous media considering anisotropic diffusion

Y Lian, HH Bui, GD Nguyen, HT Tran… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has become a popular
numerical tool to solve many challenging engineering applications. However, its application …