EDEM API Tutorial 7: Hertz-Mindlin with Pressure Calculation

Corinne Bossy_21127
Corinne Bossy_21127
Altair Employee
edited April 2022 in Altair HyperWorks

This tutorial describes how to create a Geometry Custom Property, based on an existing contact model supplied with EDEM. The Hertz-Mindlin model is modified to include the calculation of the pressure from the particle forces acting on the equipment.

The main focus is on:

  • Use of Visual Studio to create and compile an EDEM API model
  • Modification of an API model to introduce Custom Properties
  • Modification of physics to include Pressure calculations
  • Using the configForTimeStep function
  • Updating the source code to run on GPU