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- Jun 13, 2019 GPUSPH v5 released
- Mar 18, 2019 The GPUSPH Discourse group is now available
- Nov 8, 2018 The GPUSPH development branch is now public
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Development partners and interests
The development of GPUSPH features is guided and funded by government agencies and industrial and academic partners. The relevant features are usually developed privately, and get merged into the main code as they reach maturity.
The Italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and National Institute
for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) are mainly interested in
GPUSPH for lava flow hazard assessment. Their interest is therefore
focused on the development of models for highly-viscous,
thermal-dependent non-Newtonian fluids, and fluid/
The Johns Hopkins University focus for GPUSPH is on ocean engineering
and tsunami hazard assessment and risk mitigation. Violent and turbulent
flows, and fluid/
The Coastal Studies Institute is interested in GPUSPH for the modelling
and simulation of wave energy capture. Accurate fluid/
Électricité de France has been funding the development of GPUSPH for purposes of river waterworks design and, more recently, for nuclear safety purposes, in particular regarding the risk of flooding for coastal power plants. The main focuses are the accurate representation of boundary conditions (walls but also fictitious open boundaries), the modelling of sediment transport and air entrainment, as well as breaking waves in near-shore areas.
The Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau has tested GPUSPH for hydraulic engineering applications such as ship locks and fish passes, contributing to the development of the MPI-based multi-node version of the simulator