The Particle Generation Method Utilizing an Arbitrary 2D Model for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Modeling and Its Application in the Field of Snowdrift
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I read carefully manuscript number: water-2638792, the manuscript entitled: "The particle generation method of arbitrary 2D model in SPH modeling and its application in the field of snowdrift". The subject has been addressed extensively in the international literature. The new data do not add much to the existing international scientific knowledge. So, novelty is rather limited. The literature review is too general and thus can’t indicate any novelty of the current study. It is better that explain more about the novelty of manuscript in introduction section. The manuscript has not quite innovative. Please explain about its novelty.
Methodologies used in the manuscript should describe clearly. Tools for objective function optimization are unclear in the methodology. Result section was not written clearly. More explain about details of result. Discussion must be written because it is written as conclusions and repeat the same statements from other sections without focusing on your results. Conclusions are not focused on findings in this work, are very general, and some of them with any relation to the results. It must be rewritten and reduced. Nevertheless, the manuscript is not acceptable in its current form. It still needs a major revisions before reconsideration.
Check the English Grammar. The English language is moderate. Please check all parts of the manuscript and correct grammatical errors. The authors should ask the help of native English speaking proofreader, because there are some linguistic mistakes that should be fixed.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Title: It should be much more concise, and it is not clear. For example, the word particle has first associations related to nuclear physics. Also, meaning of SPH is not known to everyone so it needs to be in full.
List of authors and their affiliations: It is complete mess. If all authors are from the same institution, then 1 is not necessary to be placed after each name (also if it is there it should be as superscript). Also, why you put information about affiliations twice, ones using larger font and second using smaller font. Corresponding author is marked with * and you do not need to repeat that again under brackets. Also using smaller font, you put wrong email: [email protected]. Maybe all of that is trivial but impression is that you send this manuscript to many journals and that it was rejected for publication many times so that you lost enthusiasm to put it now in a correct form. Please be more careful with that.
Abstract: What is SPH? What do you mean with the term “snow disaster”? Maybe snowstorm with wind? What is exact meaning of “snow particles”? What kind of “snow disaster simulation software” did you use? Is it commercial or developed by you?
Keywords: Instead of keywords you obviously put sentences, but only without verbs. In such form, they are useless for indexing purposes.
Introduction: Please define “cryosphere”. What is (Oki 1983), (Huang et 28 al., 2020)…? If I see correctly, this journal requires system of references 1,2,3… I do not see that (Oki 1983) is 1 in the reference list. Do you really think that reviewers have time to read poorly prepared manuscript which is just pseudo-put in a form prescribed by this journal? Do your findings are general or affects only Chinese economy? Please, be concise in introduction: define the problem and who is affected by the problem, go briefly in the comments about approaches of other researchers and the briefly introduce your approach which will be explained in detail in further text.
Section 2: For example, in Eq. (1) you refer to Dirac function, but what is for example Greek letter ?? What does it mean <>? Why is Eq. (9) in bold? Please give detail explanation of every letter used in each equation.
Figure 3: What is A, B and C?
Figure 4: What is A and what is B?
Tables: Are A,B,C… related with the same letters in Figures 3 and 4?
Acknowledgments: It is rather Funding.
Author contribution: It is not defined following requirements of this publishing house.
Reference list: It is not in required format. What is [J]? Maybe referred to journal? [D] is for dissertation? But what is then 13 and 14 for example? Explain the difference between [D] and [PhD Thesis].
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I read the revised manuscript number: water-2638792, the revised manuscript entitled: "The particle generation method of arbitrary 2D model in SPH modeling and its application in the field of snowdrift ". In my point of view, result of this kind of research could be interesting and useful for many applications specifically. All previous comments were applied. The authors applied all comments point by point and I confirm their revision. The added information is important and useful and led to improve the manuscript. I accept the revised manuscript in this present form. I concur; the final decision is accept for publication.
Minor editing of English language required
Reviewer 2 Report
Very well written. All my suggestions have been accepted by the authors.
