Collision angle between particles

Santiago Garrido

Hi,

I'm interested in tracking the collision angle among particles in one of my simulations. I just recently started working with EDEM and after reading the documentation, the only similar thing to this I could find was with help of the protractor. However, that is slow and inefficient. 

Could you provide me with any advice regarding this? 

 

Thanks in advance. 

RWood

Hi,

As you say, that's a pretty inefficient way to do this. You could export the particle data to get the position co-ordinates of each particle and then calculate the angles you require with some trig, but I think the best option would be to use EDEMpy, which is a Python module we released to give you access to EDEM data from Python. 

https://community.altair.com/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=ad74be69db6b2050e8863978f49619f3

https://community.altair.com/community?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0119768

You can access all the particle (and geometry) information that you would require to calculate any kinds of angles. You don't need to be an expert in Python to use EDEMpy, but some basic programming skills are required.

Cheers,

Richard