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title: Programme
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date: '2026-02-23'
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# Programme

## **Workshop Programme**

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| Training Day − January 27, 2026   [Location: Room B00 at the Polytechnic Building](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rFh9FZQ7HeWpQTUPA) |
| 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 | Orlando García-Feal & Salvatore Capasso |
| Day 1 − January 28, 2026  [Location: Room “Marie Curie” at the Polytechnic Building](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rFh9FZQ7HeWpQTUPA) |
| 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: Giacomo Viccione |
| *Towards the Design of a Floating Debris Deflector* | Gorazd Novak |
| [*SPH Modeling of Salinity Transport Phenomena in Navigation Locks*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Calvo.pdf) | Lucas Calvo |
| [*DualSPHysics Modelling of CDW-based Geopolymer Paste Flow in Mini Slump Tests*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Suzuki.pdf) | Tomohiro Suzuki |
| [*Hydrodynamic Optimization of Deep-Water Surf Machines Using DualSPHysics*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Racine.pdf) | Zachary Racine |
| 13:00−15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00−16:00 | Developers Talks 1 | Chair: Alex Crespo |
| [*Novelties on v6.0 BETA*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_novelties_Fourtakas.pdf) | Georgios Fourtakas |
| [*Integrating DualSPHysics and Chrono with DSPHChronoLib*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_chrono_Martinez-Estevez.pdf) | Iván Martínez Estévez |
| [*Updates on boundary and initial conditions: How to check for normals*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_mDBC_English.pdf) | Aaron English |
| [*Variable resolution in DualSPHysics: developments and applications*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_vres_Ricci.pdf) | 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*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Lee.pdf) | 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: Yi Zhan |
| *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](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rFh9FZQ7HeWpQTUPA) |
| 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)*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_advancedformulation_Vacondio.pdf) | 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*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Bernardo.pdf) | 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*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Mohamed.pdf) | 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*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_Zhan.pdf) | 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*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_multiGPU_Dominguez.pdf) | José Domínguez |
| [*GeoDualSPHysics: New Geomechanics Model in DualSPHysics*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_geo_Feng.pdf) | Ruofeng Feng |
| *Porting and Optimizing DualSPHysics for Heterogeneous Architectures Using Kokkos and SYCL* | Chunze Cen |
| [*Wiki documentation for DualSPHysics: work in progress*](https://dual.sphysics.org/8thworkshop/user/pages/03.workshop/07.programme/8DSW_wiki_Tagliafierro.pdf) | 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 | Closing remarks |
| 20:30−22:30 | Banquet [(location here)](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bYr6EZKCDvxME5BS6) |

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