Recording which particles have been in contact with indenter

Submitted by pfalkingham on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 17:44

If I have a mesh indenter, and want to visualise which particles it has contacted, is there an easy flag that can be set in the input file?

I'm assuming that I haven't seen one in the documentation because it isn't that simple (rather than having just missed it!). If so, anyone have any ideas for implementing this?

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richti83 | Wed, 10/17/2012 - 21:40

we have developed a contact-counter which records how much particle hits a wall or on the other side how much wall-contacts a particle have had. Is it this what you want ?

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pfalkingham | Mon, 10/22/2012 - 17:12

Hmmmm.... not sure, I want to be able to visualise the simulation in such a way that when the indenter touches a particle, it changes colour, so that by the end of the simulation I can tell which particles have been directly displaced by the indenter.