ESyS-Particle

craeting Horizontal rotating drum

Asked by Elbasher M E Ahmed on 2019-01-27

Hi,
I so new with yade. I would like to create a Horizontal rotating drum. I successfully made the vertical one.
Also how to make the drum to be more than half filled with spherical particles.

Thanks
Elbasher

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Dion Weatherley
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2019-01-30
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2019-01-30
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2019-01-28
Best Dion Weatherley (d-weatherley) said : #1

Hi Elbasher,

Firstly, just want to ensure you are aware that ESyS-Particle and Yade are different Open Source DEM software packages. No guidance on the use of Yade can be provided via this (ESyS-Particle) user forum.

Assuming you do wish to use ESyS-Particle, rotating drums can be implemented as a triangulated mesh surface. Information on how to construct meshes using the gmsh software is available here:
http://www.esys-particle.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AncillaryDocumentation

There are also some scripts to covert STL (stereolithograph) files into triangle meshes for both ESyS-Particle and GenGeo here:
http://www.esys-particle.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChileWorkshop
(These scripts can be found at the very end of that page)

To rotate the drum, you will need to use a Runnable that incrementally updates the positions of triangle mesh nodes.

Cheers,

Dion

Elbasher M E Ahmed (el-basher) said : #2

Thanks Dion Weatherley, that solved my question.

Elbasher M E Ahmed (el-basher) said : #3

Hi Dion,

Thank you for having helped me.

Regards,
Elbasher

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:38 AM Dion Weatherley <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #678128 on ESyS-Particle changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/esys-particle/+question/678128
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Dion Weatherley proposed the following answer:
> Hi Elbasher,
>
> Firstly, just want to ensure you are aware that ESyS-Particle and Yade
> are different Open Source DEM software packages. No guidance on the use
> of Yade can be provided via this (ESyS-Particle) user forum.
>
> Assuming you do wish to use ESyS-Particle, rotating drums can be
> implemented as a triangulated mesh surface. Information on how to construct
> meshes using the gmsh software is available here:
> http://www.esys-particle.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AncillaryDocumentation
>
> There are also some scripts to covert STL (stereolithograph) files into
> triangle meshes for both ESyS-Particle and GenGeo here:
> http://www.esys-particle.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChileWorkshop
> (These scripts can be found at the very end of that page)
>
> To rotate the drum, you will need to use a Runnable that incrementally
> updates the positions of triangle mesh nodes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dion
>
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Elbasher
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