EDEM-OpenFoam Coupling

Overview

Please find attached Altair EDEM-OpenFOAM coupling.

The coupling – developed using EDEM’s Coupling Interface – takes place through a new OpenFOAM solver, called EDEMCouplingDPMFoam, which is based on the DPMFoam solver from OpenFOAM. During co-simulation, EDEM provides particle data to OpenFOAM, which is then used to create a particle injection for the EDEMCouplingDPMFoam solver. This injection of particles is the link between EDEM and OpenFOAM, allowing the calculation of hydrodynamic forces in OpenFOAM to be applied to the particles inside EDEM, in addition to the inter-particle contact forces EDEM already calculates. Users have the choice of post-processing their simulation in either EDEM or ParaView, the opensource post-processing software that is supplied with OpenFOAM.

Last updated November 2019.

Usage/Installation Instructions

This file contains:

• A coupling for OpenFOAM v6
• A coupling for OpenFOAM v7
• Files for a fluidized bed example case
• Documentation for the coupling