ABSTRACT
A general model based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, ‘‘SPHysics’’, was developed jointly by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.), the University of Vigo (Spain), the University of Manchester (U.K.) and the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy) to promote the development and use of SPH within the academic and industrial communities (SPHysics user guide 2007). SPHysics is provided for two and three-dimensional simulation of dam break
in a box, dam break evolution over a wet bottom, waves generated by a paddle in a beach, tsunami generated by a sliding wedge and dam-break interaction with a structure (SPHysics user guide 2007).
