It is an international reference in the simulation of wave energy capture devices. The model was created by the CIM EPhysLab group in collaboration with other universities
The Ourense campus will host the 8th DualSPHysics Workshop from January 27 to 29. The event will showcase the latest developments in DualSPHysics software, created by the EPhysLab (Environmental Physics Laboratory) group at the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), the Università degli Studi di Parma (Italy), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA). Since its launch in 2011, this tool has become a benchmark in the simulation of wave energy capture devices, accumulating more than 165,000 downloads and being used since then by all kinds of public and private entities, including NASA.
The event is organized by EPhysLab and will take place in the Polytechnic building of the campus, with nearly 70 specialists from universities and companies across 17 countries attending (Spain, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Panama, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States). O perfil de asistentes é persoal investigador de universidades e enxeñeiras e enxeñeiros de empresas tecnolóxicas, principalmente de enerxía, hidráulica, enxeñaría costeira e software científico. Os obxectivos do encontro son reunir á crecente comunidade internacional de usuarios e desenvolvedores de DualSPHysics; presentar os últimos avances do código e as liñas futuras de desenvolvemento; favorecer o intercambio directo entre persoal investigador, desenvolvedores e usuarios industriais e permitir que as e os participantes presenten os seus propios traballos e aplicacións.
Advanced scientific computing
“This workshop positions Ourense as an international meeting point for advanced scientific computing applied to engineering and environmental problems,” explains UVigo researcher José Domínguez, head of the organizing committee. He adds that the event “reinforces the role of the EPhysLab group and the University of Vigo as international references in numerical simulation and environmental and marine modeling.” The 8th DualSPHysics Workshop also continues the work of the organizing group in this field, having previously hosted other international events related to SPH in Ourense (such as Spheric 2017, several editions of the Iberian Workshop Advances on SPH, CPD courses, etc.) and published more than 90 JCR articles in this area.
DualSPHysics, the organizing committee explains, is an open-source scientific software for numerical simulation based on the SPH method (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics). It is a 3D fluid simulation model that uses particles and is employed in simulations where water impacts three-dimensional structures, such as coastal structures or floating devices at sea. In the simulation of wave energy capture devices, especially when evaluating their performance under extreme conditions like storms, it is an international benchmark. Its main applications are in coastal and port engineering; marine and offshore energy; floating structures and mooring systems; fluid-structure interaction; computational fluid dynamics; and GPU-based supercomputing. As open-source software, version 5.4 is currently available for download, and at the event, advances in the new version, 6.0, will be presented. This version will be distributed to participants as a beta and is scheduled for official release in a few months.
The 8th DualSPHysics Workshop will begin on the 27th with a practical training day for DualSPHysics users and another for developers, and will continue on the 28th and 29th with an extensive program of lectures, technical sessions for scientific communications, developer-specific sessions, and a discussion panel. Throughout the sessions, various aspects of the software and topics will be addressed, including coastal hydrodynamics and structural interaction; SPH applied to industry and the environment; multi-resolution SPH methods and applications; modeling strategies and PTOs for wave energy converters; floating structures and mooring dynamics; sloshing dynamics and experimental validation; multiphase SPH modeling; and numerical advances and special SPH modeling topics.
The CIM has the CIGUS recognition of the Xunta de Galicia, which accredits the quality and impact of its research, and its activity is co-financed by the European Union through the FEDER 21-27 Program.
Source: DUVI
