Study of the Interaction between Fluid Flow and Solid Particle with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method

This study shows the interaction between the solid particles with water flow occurring caused by the piping erosion phenomenon. This modelling study was executed by using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) as a numerical approach with the DualSPHysics platform. The water flow is assumed as laminar flow with a low Reynolds number of 100 and 200. The solid particle is modelled as a circular-shaped particle with a fixed position. The result evaluated in this research is the coefficient of hydrodynamics force on the solid particle. In the case of interaction between one circular-shaped solid particle against the water flow, it is found that by increasing the size of volume control, the output will have higher accuracy. The accuracy of this model is also improved by elongating the maximum time simulation to ensure that the SPH particle has spread evenly throughout the volume control. In the case of interaction between two solid particles against water flow at different distances, it is found that increasing the distance between the two particles reduce the force, drag coefficient, and lift coefficient of each particle. Furthermore, the increase of distance between the two particles makes vortices form in a single dominant frequency and it affects the strouhal number.