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1 A Survey on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Abstract Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree particle method which has been widely used in different fields of engineering and science. Comparing to grid-based methods, SPH is a Lagrangian particle method with lots of advantages. This paper presents a survey on the SPH method, including the background and basic ideas of SPH, the advantages of SPH, some recent applications of SPH and some concluding remarks. Keywords: Smoothed particle hydrodynamics, smoothing function, kernel approximation, particle approximation 1 Introduction The standard approach to solving the equations of fluid dynamics numerical is to define fluid quantities on a regular spatial grid, computing derivatives using finite difference or finite volume schemes [1]. However, such grid-based numerical methods suffer from difficulties in some aspects. The major difficulties are inherited from the use of grid or mesh which will lead to various problems in dealing with free surface, deformable boundary and extremely large deformation. Meshfree methods can deal with the above problems. The key idea of the meshfree methods is providing accurate and stable numerical solutions for integral equations with all possible boundary conditions using a set of arbitrary distributed particles. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is one of the oldest meshfree particle methods introduced by Lucy [2] and Gingold and Monaghan [3]. The SPH method was first invented to solve astrophysical problems, since the collective movement of those particles is similar to the movement of a liquid, and also it can be modeled by the governing equations of the classical Newtonian hydrodynamics. The status of a system is represented by a set of distributed particles in SPH. Each 2 particle has its own material property and interacts with others within the range controlled by a weight function or smoothing function [4]. Comparing t