Vignjevic, RadePowell, Seimon2015-07-292015-07-292012-01http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9327This thesis aimed at the understanding and further development of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The first part described the implementations of non-reflecting boundary conditions for elastic- waves in SPH. The second part contains a stability analysis of the semi-discrete SPH equations and a new method for stabilising basic SPH in tension.en© Cranfield University. 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.Thesis or dissertation