How to determine the numbe of particles in a given direction
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am recently looking through the Heat transfer API code and a question comes to my mind.
In the API code, we usually specify element1 and element2 and then perform the subsequent operations.
However, I was just wondering if there is any function to determine the number of particles in a certain direction.
For example, in the following figure, there are 4 columns of particles, each with 3 particles. What function can be used to determine that the number of particles along the y-direction is 3?
Kind regards,
Chao
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Hi Chao,
This can be a bit of a challenge as EDEM give you contact pair information , so you know the contact information for the particle neighbour but not it’s neighbours neighbour which can make this type of analysis difficult.
If you use a Particle Body Force you get the information about all the particles each time-step. The PBF acts after the contact model so you could store the positions of the particles via the PBF and then next time-step apply any updated forces based on this.
Regards
Stephen