Articles | Volume 11, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2691-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2691-2018
Model description paper
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09 Jul 2018
Model description paper |  | 09 Jul 2018

Plume-SPH 1.0: a three-dimensional, dusty-gas volcanic plume model based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Zhixuan Cao, Abani Patra, Marcus Bursik, E. Bruce Pitman, and Matthew Jones

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Short summary
Plume-SPH provides the first particle-based simulation of volcanic plumes. Smooth particle hydrodynamics used here has several advantages over mesh-based methods for multiphase free boundary flows like volcanic plumes. This tool will provide more accurate eruption source terms to users of volcanic ash transport and dispersion models, greatly improving volcanic ash forecasts. The Plume-SPH code incorporates several newly developed techniques in SPH-needed multiphase compressible turbulent flow.