jinghu-ut / dem-fem-coupling

Open source codes for coupling of Finite Element Method and Discrete Element Method using YADE, and OOFEM softwares.

Open source FEM-DEM coupling

Open source codes for coupling of Finite Element Method and Discrete Element Method using YADE, and OOFEM softwares.

Compatibility

Compilation and examples were tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system. Postprocessing was done using Paraview 5.0.1.

On Ubuntu 18.04, there were some compilation issues and postprocessing issues. Currently I am out of time to fix it..

Installation

There is downloadAndInstall shell script, which downloads, compiles and installs all necessary softwares. It also modifies some part of source codes to make them all compatible.

Examples

See examples directory.

Contribution

Pull Requests

Are welcome.

Bug reporting

In case of any question or problem, please leave an issue at the githup page of the project.

Contributors

• Jan Stránský

References

• J. Stranský, M. Jirásek. Open source FEM-DEM coupling. Engineering Mechanics 2012
• J. Stranský. FEM – DEM coupling and MuPIF framework. Engineering Mechanics 2013
• J. Stranský. Open source DEM–FEM coupling, Particles 2013
• J. Stranský. Combination of FEM and DEM with application to railway ballast-sleeper interaction, Engineering Mechanics 2014
• J. Stranský. Mesoscale Discrete Element Model for Concrete and Its Combination with FEM, Ph.D. thesis

Acknowledgement

• To Weimin Song for testing some of the codes.

TODO

• comments of the source code