Hamburg, 2 - 3 October 2021

The course will take place at room D2.022 of the D building placed at the Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

The onsite participants will be required to fulfill the COVID-19 requirements and restrictions in force at the Hamburg University at the time of the course. Currently, it is required to be either:

• Vaccinated (EU Digital COVID Certificate)

• Recovered from COVID-19

• Tested with rapid antigen test

Here below you can find the program of the lectures for the two days of the course.

Day 1, Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Morning
10:00 – 10:30	Registration
10:30 – 11:00	Introduction to Particles Course	M.Cremonesi / A.Franci / E.Oñate
11:00 – 12:30	Bases of Computational Mechanics Eulerian and Lagrangian description of continuum Mesh-based vs meshless methods Finite element modeling Implicit/explicit time integration	M. Cremonesi
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
Afternoon
13:30 – 15:30	Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Governing equations and kernels Implementation Application to Engineering problems	A. Crespo
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 18.00	Material Point Method (MPM) MPM theory MPM in structural mechanics MPM in geomechanics Coupled problems with MPM	A.Larese
Day 2 Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
Morning
09:00 – 10:30	Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) PFEM theory Free-surface fluid flows modeling Fluid-structure interaction and thermal-coupled problems PFEM for non-linear solid mechanics	A. Franci / J.M. Carbonell
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	PFEM for Non-Linear Solid Mechanics
11.45 – 12.30	PFEM-2 PFEM-2 theory Large time step analysis	J.M. Gimenez
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
Afternoon
13.30 – 16:00	Discrete Element Method (DEM) DEM theory Bonded DEM DEM-CFD analysis DEM-solid interaction	M.Dosta / M.A Celigueta
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00	Fundamentals of other Particle Methods Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) Moving Particle Simulation (MPS) Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM)	M. Cremonesi
17:00 – 17:30	Final considerations and open discussion