Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation for Debris Flow: A Review

Abstract

Debris flow is a kind of geological disasters occurred in a mountainous area and can cause serious impacts on human lives, infrastructure and houses. Therefore, the potential exposure to this hazard may occur in the surrounding area. This paper assesses some recent noncommercial Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) package for debris flow. SPH as a Lagrangian method, in recent decade SPH showed to be effective in solving in engineering problems involving numerical formulation. The paper considers the features and capabilities can be offer from the non-commercial SPH package that are available and accessible for researcher related to debris flow, solid fluid interaction and so on. Finally, researcher may consider the SPH package based on the suitability of the study as well as the accuracy of the experimental test that have been compared with SPH package.