Workshop Programme

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Training Day − January 27, 2026
09:30−13:00 Practical session for USERS: learn how to set up and run simulations in DualSPHysics Aaron English
13:00−14:30 Lunch
14:30−18:00 Practical session for DEVELOPERS: learn how to modify and compile the source code Iván Martínez-Estévez & Orlando García-Feal
Day 1 − January 28, 2026
Location: Room “Marie Curie” at the Polytechnic building
08:30−09:15 Registration
09:15−09:30 Welcome remarks
09:30−10:20 Guest Keynote Lecture: "SPH applied to complex Fluid Structure Interaction problems: key points and examples of challenging cases" by GUILLAUME OGER (Ecole Centrale Nantes/CNRS, France). Chair: Benedict Rogers
10:20−11:00 Coffee break
11:00−12:00 Delegates Session 1 — Coastal Hydrodynamics and Structure Interaction Chair: Corrado Altomare
Numerical Modelling of Stilling Wave Basin Crest Transformations for Coastal Structures Annelie Baines-Maitland
Modelling Ship Launching Dynamics and Validation with Full-Scale Icebreaker Data Cristian Cifuentes
DualSPHysics Modelling of Drag Coefficients in Oscillatory Flow around a Circular Cylinder Xifen Chen
SPH-based Simulations of Passing-Ship Effects on Moored Vessels in the Port of Barcelona Salvatore Capasso
12:00−13:00 Delegates Session 2 — Applied SPH for Industry and Environment Chair: Moncho Gómez-Gesteira
Towards the Design of a Floating Debris Deflector Gorazd Novak
SPH Modeling of Salinity Transport Phenomena in Navigation Locks Lucas Calvo
DualSPHysics Modelling of CDW-based Geopolymer Paste Flow in Mini Slump Tests Tomohiro Suzuki
Using DualSPHysics in the Water Recreation Industry Zachary Racine
13:00−15:00 Lunch
15:00−16:00 Developers Talks 1 Chair: Alex Crespo
Novelties on v6.0 BETA DualSPHysics team
Integrating DualSPHysics and Chrono with DSPHChronoLib Iván Martínez Estévez
Updates on boundary and initial conditions: How to check for normals Aaron English
Variable resolution in DualSPHysics: developments and applications Francesco Ricci
16:00−16:30 Delegates Session 3 — Multi-Resolution SPH Methods and Applications Chair: Francesco Ricci
Extension of Single Phase Surface Tension Model to Multi-Resolution SPH Wanki Lee
Variable Resolution DualSPHysics Model of Swimming of a Prehistoric Fish — Sacabambaspis Aaron English
16:30−17:00 Coffee break
17:00−18:00 Delegates Session 4 — Modelling and PTO Strategies for Wave Energy Converters Chair: Bonaventura Tagliafierro
Optimisation of a Numerical Modelling Framework in DualSPHysics for the Design of Wave Energy Converters Efrain Carpintero-Moreno
Enabling Optimal WEC Control in DualSPHysics Laurens Cromheeke
Numerical Modeling of the Power Take-Off System for the Kaizen WEC Cyril Delaporte
OWC Pneumatic PTO Modelling by an Analytical Chamber Model Integrated in DualSPHysics: Towards a Mid-Fidelity Approach Beatrice Mina
18:00−19:00 Delegates Session 5 — Floating Structures and Mooring Dynamics Chair: Iván Martínez-Estévez
DualSPHysics Modelling for a Rectangular Floating Platform Moored by Catenary Lines Deniz Yildiz
Coupled SPH Modelling of Batea and Mussel Line Interactions under Realistic Marine Forcing in Galician Rías Brieuc Thomas
High-Fidelity Hydrodynamics in Multiphysics Simulations of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Josean Galvan
Numerical Assessment of Nonlinear Mooring Behaviour of FOWT under Extreme Sea States Yuki Igarashi
Day 2 − January 29, 2026
Location: Room “Marie Curie” at the Polytechnic building
09:30−10:20 Developer Keynote Lecture: "Recent Advances in DualSPHysics: ALE-SPH formulation, non-conservative pressure, and divergence cleaning" by RENATO VACONDIO (University of Parma, Italy). Chair: Angelo Tafuni
10:20−11:00 Coffee break
11:00−11:30 Delegates Session 6 — Sloshing Dynamics and Experimental Validation Chair: Orlando García-Feal
Design of a Scaled Test Bench for the Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sloshing Phenomena Matteo Giuffredi
Experimental-Numerical Validation of DualSPHysics-FEA Coupling for Flexible Floating Bodies in a Sloshing Tank Francisco Bernardo
11:30−12:00 Delegates Session 7 — Multiphase SPH Modelling Chair: Aaron English
An Efficient Multiphase Solver for High Density Ratio Flows Muhammad Ayaz Hafeez
Advantages of Air–Water Two-Phase Flow Simulation for Breaking Waves and Unsteady Bores Ibuki Ueda
12:00−12:30 Delegates Session 8 — Numerical Advances in SPH Chair: Renato Vacondio
Adaptive Explicit Time Integration for WCSPH Sebastian Ruvinsky Camjalli
Energy Consumption of SPH simulations using DualSPHysics Amr Mohamed
12:30−13:00 Delegates Session 9 — Special Topics in SPH Modelling Chair: Salvatore Capasso
Multi-Body Debris Dynamics in Dam Break Flows Aileen Brendel
Coupling SPH with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Energy Capture of WEC Arrays Yi Zhan
13:00−15:00 Lunch
15:00−16:30 Developers Talks 2 Chair: Georgios Fourtakas
Efficient multi-GPU execution of DualSPHysics: design, challenges, and results José Domínguez
GeoDualSPHysics: New Geomechanics Model in DualSPHysics Ruofeng Feng
Porting and Optimizing DualSPHysics for Heterogeneous Architectures Using Kokkos and SYCL Chunze Cen
Wiki documentation for DualSPHysics: work in progress Bonaventura Tagliafierro
16:30−17:00 Coffee break
17:00−17:20 Q&A panel with the DualSPHysics Team DualSPHysics Team
17:20−17:30 Student prize and closing remarks
20:30−22:30 Banquet (location here)