Category : Blog Simulation Technology

16 Sep 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Rocky’s API reinvents solver customization

Rocky’s richest version to date presents a unique API, bringing exceptional user experience, single-code deployment and performance that won’t degrade, along with the flexibility to add custom models.

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13 Aug 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Volume fill for faster simulations

Running large simulations in Rocky just got faster! With the new Volume Fill feature in Rocky 4.3, all the particles can be initialized in an instant leading to significant reduction in time associated with depositing the particles.

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Coarse Grain Model (CGM) for CFD coupled simulations
31 Jul 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Coarse Grain Model (CGM) for CFD coupled simulations

When accounting for the fluid forces acting on particles as well as the convective heat transfer, adopting the CGM model for increasing the particle size is critical.

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23 Jul 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Accounting for sub-parcel collisions when using the Coarse Grain Model (CGM)

Using the Coarse Grain Model can underestimate the total energy dissipation of a system. Understand why this happens and how to account for this dissipation.

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14 Jul 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Liquid bridge model: accounting for liquid film in wet material modeling

Discover how Rocky DEM models the liquid bridge formation/rupture process and estimates the liquid bridge forces.

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08 Jul 2020 Blog Simulation Technology

Solve industrial scale simulations with a large number of particles using the Coarse Grain Modeling (CGM)

CGM (Coarse Grain Modeling) is a method that can be used to reduce the particle number by using larger particles, usually referred to as parcels, to represent groups of the original (smaller) particles.

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