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Validation of superquadric contact force calculation [Podlozhnyuk et al. (2017)]

Submitted by lumblab227 on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 15:43

I have read the paper by Podlozhnyuk et al. (2017) and curious about the contact force calculation.

Referring to Fig. 6, it is shown that different results of adopting different radius method.

And I have written a script to examine the results.

However I have got the results of the volume equivalent sphere. And I could see the big difference from the FEM results if I keep increasing the overlap.

Is there any comment on it?

Or it would be appreciated if you could give your experience on examine it?

Kind regards,

liggghts and implicit time integration

Submitted by AliBlues on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 19:48

Hello,
Is there a way implement a particular force exerted from the fluid side on the particle to be integrated using implicit time integration, ASIDE from the dragforce. It seems there is a possibility to integrate ONLY the drag force implicitly:
https://github.com/CFDEMproject/LIGGGHTS-PUBLIC/blob/master/src/fix_cfd_...

simulating compression of particles

Submitted by kuhsteak on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 13:10

Hi everyone,

i am working on a liggghts simulation of a plastic extruder for my master thesis.
On my adventure with DEM i noticed that the soft particle approach wants to have only small overlaps between particles (< 0.5%d).
In my real life case the particles are getting deformed in their way through the extruder. Wich leads to some questions:

1)How does a Youngs Modulus exceeding the limit of 5e6 Pa change my simulation. (in older versions i had to add "hard-particels: yes")

Breaking of multisphere particles

Submitted by Rustam on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 12:40

Hello all, I am new in LIGGGHTS, and I need help)
Can I have an example of a simulation where multisphere particles breakdown due to mutual abrasion?

In my project I'm going to simulate abrasion breakdown of particles in fluidizied bed reactor, and I have no idea how to do it.

Thanks, Rustam.

Convergence of the superquadrics contact point

Submitted by domprims on Thu, 12/27/2018 - 12:46

Hello experts!

I have some problems with the convergence of the contact point of two touching superquadrics. The contact between two superquadrics remains undiscovered if the blockiness value exceeds a certain treshold. For the attached example the superquadrics with blockiness value n_1 = n_2 = 5 touch each other but if the blockiness is n_1 = n_2 = 10 there is a complete overlap without contact recognition. So far I have not been successful in solving the problem by using a smaller timestep or an alternative neighbor bin size value.

On the visualization of superquadric particles with different sizes

Submitted by lumblab227 on Mon, 12/24/2018 - 15:21

I am thankful for Christian's contribution for visualizing the superquadric particles on previous posts.

The issue has been well solved. And the youtube link for the video could be found as

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qAggZhfzo

However, I find it is hard to visualize the superquadric particles with different size distribution. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Kind regards,
lumb

include commnad

Submitted by govind on Mon, 12/24/2018 - 13:06

Hi All,

In my CFDEM case I have to insert thousands of particles for that I am using "include" command and I am writing small python script to generate coordinates of particles. With only LIGGGHTS script it works properly but with CFDEM case it does not work. Error is "can not open the script" on include command.

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