How can I calculate the particles count deposited on a pipe by time

Hi everyone,

I have an external flow around this cylindrical pipe, and I want to calculate particle deposition rate on it. What I have tested is to export the particle positions in text file and then calculate in MATLAB, but it looks I can export only position in one direction like x or y or z (No radial position option). What is the best way to calculate it inside the EDEM or export a radial position of particles (Can I add a variable r=sqrt(x^2+y^2+z^2 and then export it in txt file?)

Thank you,

Mahdi.

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Stephen Cole

Hi Mahdi,

You could export contacts between the pipe and the particles, for single sphere particles the number of contacts between the pipe and particles = number of particles on the pipe. For multi-sphere you can get multiple contacts per particle.

Otherwise you can't put equations in the data export only exporting the raw data for analysis later. You could consider EDEMpy for customised analysis.

EDEMPy - EDEM Help

Regards

Stephen

Mahdi_22303

Hi Mahdi,

You could export contacts between the pipe and the particles, for single sphere particles the number of contacts between the pipe and particles = number of particles on the pipe. For multi-sphere you can get multiple contacts per particle.

Otherwise you can't put equations in the data export only exporting the raw data for analysis later. You could consider EDEMpy for customised analysis.

EDEMPy - EDEM Help

Regards

Stephen

HI Stephen,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Can you please also have a look at my latest reply to your comment on this question about coupling Fluent and EDEM on Linux? Thank you very much.

https://community.altair.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=c3cbfd6997f3e950e3b0361e6253af73