The SPHERIC Workshop series is highly focussed on Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and related methods. SPH and
other meshless particle approaches have unique strengths for
modelling fluids and solids with dynamic free surfaces or
interfaces.

The Workshop is open to all aspects of research and
applications of SPH and related methods.

Research topics include development of numerical algorithms
and analysis and evaluation of new or existing algorithms in
SPH or related methods. High-performance computing,
including GPUs, is also a major research theme. The
community particularly welcomes work that addresses the
SPHERIC Grand Challenges (GC). Research topics include, but
are not limited to:

    Convergence, consistency and stability (GC1)
    Boundary conditions (GC2)
    Adaptivity and variable resolution (GC3)
    Coupling to other methods (GC4)
    Free surfaces and moving boundaries
    Solids and structures
    Multiple continua and multi-phase flow
    Viscosity and turbulence
    Incompressible flow
    Complex physics
    High-performance computing
    Hardware acceleration
    Pre-processing and visualisation
    Alternative and novel formulations (FVPM, MPS, RSPH…)

Application

Abstracts dealing with the application of SPH to challenging
or new real-life problems are encouraged, and will be
reviewed in a separate stream. SPHERIC Grand Challenge #5,
Applicability to Industry, defines generic aspects of SPH
which must be advanced to foster the method’s diffusion and
adoption in industry. The following indicative list of
application domains is by no means complete, and the
Workshop would welcome presentations of the extension of SPH
into new fields.

    Applicability to industry (GC5)
    Hydraulic applications
    Maritime and naval architecture applications
    Biomechanics and Medical Devices
    Geotechnical applications
    Microfluidics
    Astrophysics
    Solids and Fracture Mechanics
    Disaster simulations