On the migration of smooth particle hydrodynamic formulation in Cartesian coordinates to the axisymmetric formulation

The smooth particle hydrodynamic (SPH) method has been extended for application to large deformation problems such as high velocity impacts by including the effect of material strength. This paper presents a simple modification of the kernel function that allows the SPH formulation in Cartesian coordinates to be migrated into an axisymmetric formulation. The proposed procedure is first applied to analyse transient deformations of a cylindrical rod impacting a rigid wall (Taylor impact test). A good agreement with published experimental data for the deformed shape is obtained. A sensitivity study of the key parameters required in the SPH formulation is conducted to provide better insight into the SPH modelling approach. Impacts between two bodies at high speed have also been simulated using an axisymmetric SPH code.