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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and its applications for multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media

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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization of partial differential equations. In this review, we present SPH discretization of the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion-reaction equations, implementation of various boundary conditions, and time integration of the SPH equations, and we discuss applications of the SPH method for modeling pore-scale multiphase flows and reactive transport in porous and fractured media.

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    A. M. Tartakovsky & W. Pan

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  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

    K. Pan, B. Jones & J. R. Williams

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Tartakovsky, A.M., Trask, N., Pan, K. et al. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and its applications for multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media. Comput Geosci 20, 807–834 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-015-9468-9

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