Discussion on “comparative study on volume conservation among various SPH models for flows of different levels of violence, coastal engineering, volume 191, August 2024, 104 521” by Wang et al

Abstract

The paper by Wang et al. (2024) targets an interesting topic in the context of particle methods, namely, volume conservation. This important feature is studied by focusing on the time variation of mean water level under three different scenarios corresponding to hydrostatics, standing wave and dam break, and through consideration of a few variants of the Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) fluid model. In this discussion, the discussers briefly discuss some issues that could have been further considered in the paper by Wang et al. (2024) to ensure rigorousness and comprehensiveness of the conducted comparative analysis.