Tutorials

Aspherix® GUI comes with a list of tutorials that help with getting started. The cases can be loaded directly by using the “Open tutorial” functionality in the File menu:

The corresponding descriptions can be found here:

Basic tutorials

• Basic DEM Tutorial
• Thermal Chute Wear
• Angle of Repose
• Multisphere Mixer
• Filling a hopper and simulating a continuous flow process
• The effect of coarsegraining
• Usage of particle groups
• Neighborlists for highly polydisperse packings

One-way CFD-DEM coupling

• One way CFD-DEM coupling: using a drag force field
• Rotating distributor: one-way coupling against transient fluid field
• Rotating distributor: one-way coupling against MRF fluid field

Particle shapes

• Usage of different particle shapes
• DEM simulation with superquadric particles
• Flexible cubes (bonded particles)
• Bonded particles colliding with an obstacle
• Mowing grass formed by fibers
• Inserting concave particles in a box
• Rotating drum with A and X-shaped concave particles
• Convex particles falling down a chute
• Output particles with overlay meshes

Particle insertion

• Automatic workflow for filling complex regions with spheres
• Stream insertion of nonspherical particles until a region is filled
• Insertion with a moving mesh
• Laser simulation with DEM

Advanced mesh handling

• Emptying of a container in a chamber with a 6dof lid
• 6dof-cube falling into a particle bed
• Compressing a particle bed with a servo wall
• Wear induced mesh deformation
• Evaluating the external work on a geometry

Liquid transport and heat transfer

• Liquid Transport
• Heat transport and evaporation
• Spray coating of non-spherical particles
• Spray modelling with DEM spray particles
• Heating up particles due to contact forces
• Solidification of liquid bridges
• Radiation using distance based approximations

Wear & particle breakage

• Wear Modelling in a Ball Mill
• Particle Breakage
• Particle breakage - Bruchmueller model

Appification

• Appification: Spray coating simulation

Powder compaction

• Tablet press
• Compressing Particles

Melting

• Melting of particles

Electrical conductivity and magnetic fields

• Electrical conductivity
• Battery Heating
• Conveyor with magnetic field for particle sorting
• Charge Transfer
• Measure Potential

Coupled simulations

• Using the GUI to set up a coupled simulation
• Drag modelling with DEM and CFD-DEM
• Simulation of a conveyor belt deformation using a coupled FEM-DEM simulation

GPU Tutorials (Linux only)

• Thermal Mixer (GPU)
• Rotating Drum (GPU)