Improvement of moving particle semi‐implicit method for simulation of progressive water waves

Precise simulation of the propagation of surface water waves, especially when involving breaking wave, takes a significant place in computational fluid dynamics. Because of the strong nonlinear properties, the treatment of large surface deformation of free surface flow has always been a challenging work in the development of numerical models. In this paper, the moving particle semi‐implicit (MPS) method, an entirely Lagrangian method, is modified to simulate wave motion in a 2‐D numerical wave flume preferably. In terms of consecutive pressure distribution, a new and simple free surface detection criterion is proposed to enhance the free surface recognition in the MPS method. In addition, a revised gradient model is deduced to diminish the effect of nonuniform particle distribution and then to reduce the numerical wave attenuation occurring in the original MPS model. The applicability and stability of the improved MPS method are firstly demonstrated by the calculation of hydrostatic problem. It is revealed that these modifications are effective to suppress the pressure oscillation, weaken the local particle clustering, and boost the stability of numerical algorithm. It is then applied to investigate the propagation of progressive waves on a flat bed and the wave breaking on a mild slope. Comparisons with the analytical solutions and experimental results indicate that the improved MPS model can give better results about the profiles and heights of surface waves in contrast with the previous MPS models. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical simulation of solitary waves overtopping on a sloping sea dike using a particle method

Sea dikes, as a commonly used type of coastal protection structures, are often attacked or damaged by violent waves overtopping under tsunamis and storm surges. In this study, the behavior of solitary waves traveling on a sloping sea dike is simulated, and solitary wave overtopping characteristics are analyzed using a complete Lagrangian numerical method, the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. To better describe the complicated fluid motions during the wave overtopping process, the original MPS method is modified by introducing a new free surface detection method, i.e., the area filling rate identification method, and a modified gradient operator to provide higher precision. Meanwhile, the approximation method for sloping boundaries in particle methods is enhanced, and a smooth slope approximation method is proposed and recommended. To verify the improved MPS method, a solitary wave traveling over a steep sloping bed is studied. The entire solitary wave run-up and run-down processes and exquisite water movements are reproduced well by the present method, and are consistent with the corresponding experimental results. Subsequently, the improved MPS method is applied to investigate the overtopping process of a single solitary wave over a sloping sea dike. The results show that the hydraulic jump phenomenon is also possible to occur during the run-down motion of the solitary wave overtopping. Finally, the characteristics of the propagation and overtopping of two successive solitary waves on a sloping sea dike are discussed. The result manifests that the interaction between adjacent solitary waves affects wave overtopping patterns and overtopping velocities.     

基于移动粒子半隐式法的表面张力模拟

采用移动粒子半隐式法(MPS)模拟了受表面张力影响的自由面流动。表面张力的计算采取了一种较适合于MPS方法的表面自由能模型。方形液滴振荡和射流断裂的模拟结果分别与理论分析和试验结果一致,同时进行了三维射流注水模拟,从而验证了MPS方法结合该表面张力模型可以有效、方便地进行自由面流动中表面张力现象的模拟。     

Development and elaboration of numerical method for simulating gas–liquid–solid three-phase flows based on particle method

A numerical method for simulating gas–liquid–solid three-phase flows based on the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) approach was developed in this study. Computational instability often occurs in multiphase flow simulations if the deformations of the free surfaces between different phases are large, among other reasons. To avoid this instability, this paper proposes an improved coupling procedure between different phases in which the physical quantities of particles in different phases are calculated independently. We performed numerical tests on two illustrative problems: a dam-break problem and a solid-sphere impingement problem. The former problem is a gas–liquid two-phase problem, and the latter is a gas–liquid–solid three-phase problem. The computational results agree reasonably well with the experimental results. Thus, we confirmed that the proposed MPS method reproduces the interaction between different phases without inducing numerical instability.     

一种改进的MPS粒子作用模型

从分析角度出发,为移动粒子半隐式法(MPS)提供了一组新的粒子作用模型,该模型在粒子局部坐标系下进行泰勒展开,同步获取各算子的粒子近似式,确保了离散精度的一致性.方法对于随机分布的粒子和边界附近的粒子同样适用.文中利用三个算例对该方法进行了检验,计算结果与分析解符合较好.最后,运用该方法成功模拟了自由面流动的二维溃坝问题.     

Improved MPS method with variable‐size particles

Using variable‐size particles in the moving particle semi‐implicit method (MPS) could lead to inaccurate predictions and/or numerical instability. In this paper, a variable‐size particle moving particle semi‐implicit method (VSP‐MPS) scheme is proposed for the MPS method to achieve more reliable simulations with variable‐size particles. To improve stability and accuracy, a new gradient model is developed based on a previously developed MPS scheme that requires no surface detection MPS. The dynamic particle coalescing and splitting algorithm is revised to achieve dynamic multi‐resolution. A cubic spline function with additional function is employed as the kernel function. The effectiveness of the VSP‐MPS method is demonstrated by three verification examples, that is, a hydrostatic pressure problem, a complicated free surface flow problem with large deformation, and a dynamic impact problem. The new VSP‐MPS scheme with variable‐size particles is found to have balanced efficiency and accuracy that is suitable for simulating large systems with complex flow patterns. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

粒子法中压力振荡的机理研究

移动粒子半隐式法(moving particle semi-implicit method, MPS)是一种适用于不可压缩流体的无网格方法, MPS方法常应用于自由表面大变形问题.MPS 方法提出至今一直存在着严重的压力振荡问题. 本研究针对MPS 方法中存在的压力振荡现象, 首先将实际的物理问题简化为一维模型, 并从粒子之间相互位置关系的角度说明了MPS 方法中压力波动产生的原因.在采用MPS方法进行模拟时, 加入了粒子碰撞模型, 通过对碰撞系数的选择从而控制粒子之间的相互位置关系.并且对经典的溃坝问题进行了模拟, 结果表明随着碰撞系数的增加, 粒子数密度偏差的波动幅度都会减小, 从而压力振荡的幅度得到了有效的抑制.并且对比了两种不同核函数对压力振荡的影响, 结果表明: 采用高斯核函数时, 压力振荡的幅度更小, 这是因为采用高斯核函数时, 相同的粒子位置波动幅度将会得到较小的粒子数密度偏差的波动.由于在模拟过程中粒子运动的随机性, 这将导致粒子数密度偏差产生随机的波动, 从而产生压力振荡, 因此粒子法中的压力振荡很难彻底消除.      

Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Fluid Flows Through Porous Media by Using the Explicit MPS Method

Transport in Porous Media - An extension of the explicit moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is proposed for simulating free surface flow through a porous structure object. The model...     

Comparative study of two corrective gradient models in the simulation of multiphase flows using moving particle semi-implicit method

In this study, two corrective gradient models (CGMs) are compared in the simulation of multiphase flows. Linear consistency of the gradient model of moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method has been recovered by introducing corrective matrix. However, it is found that particles tend to disperse along the streamline while using the CGM proposed in a previous study. Particle shifting (PS) schemes are necessary to reduce the irregularity of particle distribution to stabilize the calculation. To enhance the accuracy and stability, another CGM with dummy particle (CGMD) was proposed in our previous study. This enhanced CGM is featured by linear consistency and purely repulsive pressure gradient force. In this study, this enhanced CGM is modified and applied to multiphase flow simulation. Comparative study suggests that the modified CGM with PS scheme is capable of calculating various multiphase flows and predicting the interface evolution both clearly and accurately.     

MPS与GPU结合数值模拟LNG液舱晃荡

液舱晃荡是一种在外部激励作用下部分装载的液舱内液体的波动现象,它会对液舱结构强度和运输船舶稳性产生危害.移动粒子半隐式法(moving particle semi-implicit,MPS)是一种典型的无网格粒子类方法,可以有效地模拟剧烈的液舱晃荡问题.但MPS方法存在计算效率低的缺点,难以模拟大规模三维问题,而GPU并行加速技术已广泛应用于科学计算领域.因此,本文将MPS方法与GPU并行加速技术相结合,采用CUDA程序语言编写,自主开发了MPSGPU-SJTU求解器,对三维液化天然气(liquefiednatural gas, LNG)型液舱晃荡进行了数值模拟.通过三种不同粒子间距的数值模拟,验证了求解器的收敛性,其中最大计算粒子数达到了200多万.与其他研究结果相比,MPSGPU-SJTU求解器能够准确地预测壁面砰击压力,并且捕捉晃荡过程中自由面的大幅度变形和强非线性破碎现象.相比CPU求解器的计算时间,GPU并行加速技术可以大幅度地减小计算时长,提高MPS方法的计算效率.本文将LNG型液舱与方型液舱的晃荡进行对比,结果表明在高充液率下LNG型液舱可以有效地减小晃荡幅值和壁面砰击压力.但在中低充液率下,LNG型液舱则会加剧晃荡,自由面呈现明显的三维特征.本文还进一步研究了水和LNG两种不同介质的液舱晃荡现象,数值模拟结果表明二者的流场基本相似,砰击压力则正比于液体密度.      

MPS方法数值模拟楔形体入水问题

入水问题是船舶海洋工程中典型的流动问题。当船舶在恶劣海况中航行或海洋平台遭遇恶劣天气时,结构物和水体之间往往会出现剧烈的砰击作用。砰击发生时,伴随着结构物湿表面的变化、自由液面的翻卷和破碎等强非线性现象。本文采用本课题组自主开发的基于移动粒子半隐式法MPS(Moving Particle Semi-Implicit Method)的求解器MLParticle-SJTU对二维楔形体入水问题进行了数值模拟。选取斜升角为30°的楔形体模拟其入水过程,研究了不同粒子布置方式对于计算结果如垂向水动力和自由面变化的影响,并与MLM砰击模型(Modified Logvinovich Model)的结果进行了比较,吻合较好。在此基础上,进一步研究了不同斜升角对计算结果(垂向水动力和自由面变化)的影响,其中流动分离前的垂向水动力与MLM结果相近,表明了MPS方法能有效地模拟入水问题。     

A moving particle semi‐implicit method for free surface flow: Improvement in inter‐particle force stabilization and consistency restoring

The moving particle semi‐implicit (MPS) method has been widely applied in free surface flows. However, the implementation of MPS remains limited because of compressive instability occurred when the particles are under compressive stress states. This study proposed an inter‐particle force stabilization and consistency restoring MPS (IFS‐CR‐MPS) method to overcome this numerical instability. For inter‐particle force stabilization, a hyperbolic‐shaped quintic kernel function is developed with a non‐negative and smooth second order derivative to satisfy the stability criterion under compressive stress state. Then, a contrastive study is conducted on the contradiction between the common understanding of the conventional MPS hyperbolic‐shaped kernel function and its performance. The result shows that the conventional MPS hyperbolic‐shaped kernel function can easily cause violent repulsive inter‐particle force and then lead to the compressive instability. Therefore, the first order derivative of the modified hyperbolic‐shaped quintic kernel function is recommended as the form of the contribution of the neighbor particles to achieve a more stable inter‐particle repulsive force. For consistency restoring, the Taylor series expansion and the hyperbolic‐shaped quintic kernel are combined to improve the accuracy of the viscosity and pressure calculation. The IFS‐CR‐MPS algorithm is subsequently verified by the inviscid hydrostatic pressure, jet impacting, and viscous droplet impacting problems. These results can be used for choosing kernel function and the contribution of neighbor particles in particle methods. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the stabilization of unphysical pressure oscillations in MPS method simulations

In this paper, pressure stability through the suppression of high‐frequency pressure oscillations in the moving particle semi‐implicit (MPS) method is presented. To obtain a stable pressure field, we improve the free‐surface particle search algorithm. Pressure stability follows from the suppression of high‐frequency pressure oscillations due to a correction in the Laplacian operator of the Poisson pressure equation and from the correction of the pressure gradient operator. The three proposed modifications are applied gradually and compared with the MPS method to show the improvements in the hydrostatic pressure and dam‐breaking problems. To validate the suppression of the high‐frequency numerical pressure oscillations, modified MPS methods with and without a removable wall are compared with published dam‐breaking experiment pressure measurements. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical study of breaking waves by a two‐phase flow model

A two‐phase flow model, which solves the flow in the air and water simultaneously, is presented for modelling breaking waves in deep and shallow water, including wave pre‐breaking, overturning and post‐breaking processes. The model is based on the Reynolds‐averaged Navier–Stokes equations with the k ?ε turbulence model. The governing equations are solved by the finite volume method in a Cartesian staggered grid and the partial cell treatment is implemented to deal with complex geometries. The SIMPLE algorithm is utilised for the pressure‐velocity coupling and the air‐water interface is modelled by the interface capturing method via a high resolution volume of fluid scheme. The numerical model is validated by simulating overturning waves on a sloping beach and over a reef, and deep‐water breaking waves in a periodic domain, in which good agreement between numerical results and available experimental measurements for the water surface profiles during wave overturning is obtained. The overturning jet, air entrainment and splash‐up during wave breaking have been captured by the two‐phase flow model, which demonstrates the capability of the model to simulate free surface flow and wave breaking problems.Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Space potential particles to enhance the stability of projection-based particle methods

Particle methods have been seldom verified by a Karman vortex simulation, which is commonly performed as a typical benchmark in computational fluid dynamics. This is mainly due to a difficulty in suppression of occurrence of unphysical voids manifested usually in a strong vortex on account of definition of free surface by the Lagrangian tracking framework with inconsistency in volume conservation. This paper presents a simple and effective scheme as a free-surface boundary condition of projection-based particle methods, namely the MPS (moving particle semi-implicit) and Incompressible SPH (ISPH) methods to handle the free surface with consistency in volume conservation. The new scheme is introduced into the Poisson pressure equation (PPE) with consideration of a potential in void space as space potential particle (SPP), to reproduce physical motions of particles around free surface through a particle–void interaction. The enhancing effect of the newly proposed SPP scheme is shown by simulating a few numerical tests, including a whirling water flow, a two-phase surfacing flow, and a set of Karman vortex simulations.     

人工黏性增强三维移动粒子半隐算法稳定性

通过综合比较移动粒子半隐方法(moving-particle semi-implicitmethod, MPS)各种稳定性计算方法, 考虑了多种可能导致计算不稳定的因素, 并首次提出加入人工黏性来抑制非物理压力振荡, 得到了较为稳定的三维MPS算法.采用各种稳定性方案对比模拟了三维立方流体旋转状态下的变形及三维静水压问题, 并进一步与商业软件的流体体积函数方法(volumeof fluid, VOF)模型计算结果对比, 验证了其正确性.结果表明:对三维情形, 单纯应用已有的稳定性算法仍难以满足MPS计算稳定性的要求, 而进一步辅以该文提出的人工黏性方法则可以在准确性及稳定性方面均取得较好的效果, 且计算结果显示, 通过该文提出的开关模式增加人工黏性并不影响压强泊松方程的求解精度, 因而不会对流场的求解产生负面作用.     

破碎带波浪的数值模拟

基于一组色散关系得到改进的完全非线性Boussinesq方程建立了一个波浪模型可以模拟近岸水域的波浪变浅、破碎以及在海滩上的爬高等多种变形。波浪破碎引起的能量衰减是在动量方程中引入一个在空间和时间上都只作用于波前的涡粘项来模拟。动海岸线边界用窄缝法处理。波浪爬高用非线性浅水方程推导的非破碎波浪在斜坡上爬高的解析解来验证。本模型还模拟了波浪在斜坡上不同类型的破碎变形过程,并将其波高和平均水位的沿程变化和物理模型实验的结果比较,两者符合良好。     

MPS-FEM方法模拟弹性船体在规则波中的运动

船舶在海洋中航行时经常会受波浪的作用,在波浪的作用下,船体可能会发生六自由度的运动.在船体运动幅度较小时,可以简单地将船体运动视为刚体运动.但当波浪环境较为剧烈、船体运动幅度较大时,船体可能会发生变形,此时船舶弹性的影响无法忽略.因此,研究弹性船体在波浪中的运动对船舶运动性能和航行安全具有重要的意义.移动粒子半隐式方法 MPS方法是一种基于拉格朗日方法表示的无网格粒子类方法,该方法在模拟具有自由面大变形特征的问题时具有其独特的优势.有限元方法 FEM作为一种传统的并且已被广泛应用的结构求解方法,具有很好的稳定性、准确性和鲁棒性.本文将MPS方法与FEM方法二者的优势结合,基于MPS-FEM耦合方法,使用自主开发的MPSFEM-SJTU流固耦合求解器,模拟刚性船体和弹性船体在规则波中的运动,并分析船体的弹性对船体运动响应的影响.首先模拟刚性船体在不同波长的规则波中的运动,研究规则波波长对船体运动响应的影响.接着分别模拟了刚性和弹性船体在规则波中的运动,结果表明,刚性船体的运动幅值大于弹性船体的运动幅值,而弹性船体船舯附近的压力大于刚性船体.     

A particle–gridless hybrid method for incompressible flows

A particle–gridless hybrid method for the analysis of incompressible flows is presented. The numerical scheme consists of Lagrangian and Eulerian phases as in an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method, where a new‐time physical property at an arbitrary position is determined by introducing an artificial velocity. For the Lagrangian calculation, the moving‐particle semi‐implicit (MPS) method is used. Diffusion and pressure gradient terms of the Navier–Stokes equation are calculated using the particle interaction models of the MPS method. As an incompressible condition, divergence of velocity is used while the particle number density is kept constant in the MPS method. For the Eulerian calculation, an accurate and stable convection scheme is developed. This convection scheme is based on a flow directional local grid so that it can be applied to multi‐dimensional convection problems easily. A two‐dimensional pure convection problem is calculated and a more accurate and stable solution is obtained compared with other schemes. The particle–gridless hybrid method is applied to the analysis of sloshing problems. The amplitude and period of sloshing are predicted accurately by the present method. The range of the occurrence of self‐induced sloshing predicted by the present method shows good agreement with the experimental data. Calculations have succeeded even for the higher injection velocity range, where the grid method fails to simulate. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.