Measuring particle accumulation height

Kiran Purushothama Keshavan
Kiran Purushothama Keshavan Altair Community Member
edited April 15 in Community Q&A

Hello,

I have a simulation setup which is just a simple case of particle accumulation on a flat plate. I'd like to know 2 things:
1. The correct method to measure the height of particle accumulation at multiple points, I'm asking you this question because whenever I try to measure the height of accumulation, the particle to geometry distance is a slant line as shown in the figure, I just need to measure the correct perpendicular height.

2. Is there a way to measure the average accumulation height for the entire surface?

Thanks,
Kiran

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  • Prasad Avilala_20558
    Prasad Avilala_20558
    Altair Employee
    edited April 11

    Hi Kiran,

     

    You can measure the height of the bed in the following ways.

    1) Simply plot the Axial position of the particles in analyst and from legend you can understand the height of the bed

    2) You can use bins to measure the position of the bed

    3) you can write a Python script to calculate the position/height of the bed by calculating the difference of the least particle axial position and maximum particle axial position which the maximum height of the bed

     

    I hope this helps.

     

    Thanks,

    Prasad A

  • Kiran Purushothama Keshavan
    Kiran Purushothama Keshavan Altair Community Member
    edited April 16

    Hi,

    1. Is it possible to plot domain length on X axis and particle accumulation height in Y?

    2. I would also like to use a python code to find an average, how can I export particle positions to calculate the average? Is it part of any tutorial?

    Thanks,

    Kiran

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