Publications

2026

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   Coupling Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Control of Point Absorbers

   Yi Zhan, Iván Martínez-Estévez, Min Luo, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06485, 2026

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   This study develops an optimal adaptive damping control model for PTO systems by coupling high-fidelity SPH simulations with Multi-Agent Soft Actor-Critic (MASAC) to maximize wave energy capture.

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   Simulation of Multi-Body Floating Structures Under Wave Actions Using DualSPHysics+

   Guozhen Cai, Min Luo, Matteo Rubinato, Yi Zhan, and 1 more author

   Ocean Engineering, 2026

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   This work extends DualSPHysics+ to simulate the hydrodynamic responses of moored multi-body floating structures, validated through benchmark cases of modular floating systems and 3D hinged solar arrays.

2025

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   DualSPHysics+: An Enhanced DualSPHysics with Improvements in Accuracy, Energy Conservation and Resolution of the Continuity Equation

   Yi Zhan, Min Luo, and Abbas Khayyer

   Computer Physics Communications, 2025

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   This paper presents an enhanced version of the well-known SPH open-source code DualSPHysics for the simulation of free-surface fluid flows. The enhancements include Optimized Particle Shifting, Riemann stabilization, and improved volume conservation schemes.

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   An Enhanced SPH-Based Hydroelastic FSI Solver with Structural Dynamic Hourglass Control

   Yi Zhan, Min Luo, and Abbas Khayyer

   Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2025

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   An enhanced hydroelastic FSI solver with second-order discretization, Riemann stabilization, and a novel Dynamic Hourglass Control scheme for suppressing zero-energy modes.

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   An Enhanced Numerical Wave Tank for Wave-Structure Interaction Based on DualSPHysics+

   Yi Zhan, Min Luo, and Abbas Khayyer

   Ocean Engineering, 2025

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   An enhanced numerical wave tank for wave-structure interaction simulations incorporating advanced schemes for wave generation, propagation, and structure interaction with improved accuracy and physical consistency.

2024

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   Development of a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Model for Porous Media Flows with Enhanced Volume Conservation and the Revisit of the Mass Conservation Equation

   Xiujia Su, Chen Wang, Min Luo, Yi Zhan

   Physics of Fluids, 2024

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2021

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   A Decision-Tree Based Moment-of-Fluid (DTMOF) Method in 3D Rectangular Hexahedrons

   Zhouteng Ye, Mark Sussman, Yi Zhan

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02533, 2021

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