Overview

This keyword list gives an (possibly incomplete) overview of the features of Aspherix® GUI. The links lead to examples in the tutorials.

Particle shapes:

• spheres

• multispheres

• flexible fibers

• superquadric particles: tables, ellipsoids, rods, …

• convex shapes

• concave particles

• fragments

• bonded particles

Mesh-related topics:

• rotating/moving geometries

• 6dof solver for meshes

• suspended 6dof meshes

• wear induced mesh deformation

• servo walls

• external work

• usage of Roessler-Katterfeld combined wear model

Physical modelling:

• cohesion

• rolling friction

• heat transfer

• evaporation

• melting

• solidification of liquid bridges

• contact heating

• compression

• wear modelling

• coarsegraining

• one-way CFD-DEM coupling

• one-way CFD-DEM coupling involving a moving reference frame (MRF)

• one-way CFD-DEM coupling with a transient velocity field

• lagrangian spray / droplet modelling

• powder compaction

• particle breakage

• liquid transport for sponges

• liquid transport for porous particles

• electrical conductivity

• magnetism

• laser / photons

Particle insertion and removal:

• inserting particles via a stream

• inserting particles as a pack

• inserting particle rate in region

• insertion through a moving insertion face

• insertion of a dense packing

• insertion of particles in complex regions

• deleting particles

General topics:

• custom settings

• restarting simulations

• setting up coupled simulations

Postprocessing:

• volume averaging

• displaying contact forces between particles

• displaying global simulation output

• postprocessing with Paraview & Ovito.