SPHERA v.9.0.0: A Computational Fluid Dynamics research code, based on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics mesh-less method

SPHERA v.9.0.0 (RSE SpA) is a FOSS CFD-SPH research code validated on the following application fields: floods with transport of solid bodies and bed-load transport; fast landslides and their interactions with water reservoirs; sediment removal from water bodies; fuel sloshing tanks; hydrodynamic lubrication for energy efficiency actions in the industrial sector. SPHERA is featured by several numerical schemes dealing with: transport of solid bodies in fluid flows; treatment of fixed and mobile solid boundaries; dense granular flows and an erosion criterion. The source and executable codes, the input files and the free numerical chain of SPHERA v.9.0.0 are presented. Some reference validations and applications are also provided. SPHERA is developed and distributed on a GitHub public repository. Program summary: Program title: SPHERA v.9.0.0 Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License 3 (GPL) Programming language: Fortran 95 Supplementary material: software documentation/guide, 34 tutorials Journal Reference of previous version: Amicarelli A., R. Albano, D. Mirauda, G. Agate, A. Sole, R. Guandalini; 2015; A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for 3D solid body transport in free surface flows; Computers & Fluids, 116:205–228. DOI 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.04.018 Does the new version supersede the previous version?: Yes Reasons for the new version: scheme for dense granular flows (i.e. bed-load transport, fast landslides); reference Journal publication: Amicarelli A., B. Kocak, S. Sibilla, J. Grabe; 2017; A 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for erosional dam-break floods; International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 31(10):413-434; DOI 10.1080/10618562.2017.1422731 Nature of problem (approx. 50–250 words): SPHERA v.9.0.0 has been applied to free-surface and multi-phase flows involving the following application fields: floods (with transport of solid bodies, bed-load transport and a domain spatial coverage up to some hundreds of squared kilometres), fast landslides and wave motion, sediment removal from water reservoirs, fuel sloshing tanks, hydrodynamic lubrication. Solution method (approx. 50–250 words): SPHERA v.9.0.0 is a research FOSS (“Free/Libre and Open-Source Software”) code based on the SPH (“Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics”) technique, a mesh-less Computational Fluid Dynamics numerical method for free surface and multi-phase flows. The five numerical schemes featuring SPHERA v.9.0.0 deal with: dense granular flows; transport of solid bodies in free surface flows; boundary treatment for both mobile and fixed frontiers; 2D erosion criterion. Additional comments including Restrictions and Unusual features (approx. 50–250 words): SPHERA v.9.0.0 is a 3D research FOSS (“Free/Libre and Open-Source Software”) code (developed under the subversion control system Git) with peculiar features for: floods (with transport of solid bodies, bed-load transport and a domain spatial coverage up to some hundreds of squared kilometres), fast landslides and wave motion, sediment removal from water reservoirs, fuel sloshing tanks, hydrodynamic lubrication. The whole numerical chain of SPHERA is made of FOSS, freeware and Open Data numerical tools. References: SPHERA (RSE SpA), https://github.com/AndreaAmicarelliRSE/SPHERA, last access on 28May2019 Amicarelli A., G. Agate, R. Guandalini; 2013; A 3D Fully Lagrangian Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model with both volume and surface discrete elements; International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 95: 419–450, DOI: 10.1002/nme.4514 Amicarelli A., R. Albano, D. Mirauda, G. Agate, A. Sole, R. Guandalini; 2015; A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for 3D solid body transport in free surface flows; Computers & Fluids, 116:205–228. DOI 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.04.018 Amicarelli A., B. Kocak, S. Sibilla, J. Grabe; 2017; A 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for erosional dam-break floods; International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 31(10):413-434; DOI 10.1080/10618562.2017.1422731 Manenti S., S. Sibilla, M. Gallati, G. Agate, R. Guandalini; 2012; SPH Simulation of Sediment Flushing Induced by a Rapid Water Flow; Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ASCE 138(3): 227–311. Di Monaco A., S. Manenti, M. Gallati, S. Sibilla, G. Agate, R. Guandalini; 2011; SPH modelling of solid boundaries through a semi-analytic approach. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 5(1):1-15.