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Woo[dem]: public project anouncement

Asked by Václav Šmilauer

Hi everybody, I am abusing the answers interface for something which is not really a question.

I would like to announce that an open-source DEM code called Woo[dem], which spinned of Yade about 2 years ago, has become officially existing at http://woodem.eu. The new branch was started to improve extensibility (meshfree method I was working on back then), do various compatibility-breaking clean-ups and refactoring, and later evolved into commercially-backed development of customizable simulation platform.

If you know Yade well, you will find the simulation logic familiar (there is a lot inherited, though a lot of the code was also rewritten from scratch). If you need to run under Windows, or would like to have commercially-supported DEM code, Woo could be an option. I listed some differences under http://woodem.eu/doc/user/yade-diff.html .

Feel free to get inspiration for Yade or contact me by e-mail or here (I won't be able to reply between May 4th and 26th, be patient).

Cheers,

Václav

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Klaus Thoeni (klaus.thoeni) said : 		#1

Wow, it looks amazing!

Can you tell as anything about performance compared to yade?

Cheers

Klaus

On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:51:06 PM Václav Šmilauer wrote:
> New question #227938 on Yade:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/227938
>
> Hi everybody, I am abusing the answers interface for something which is not
> really a question.
>
> I would like to announce that an open-source DEM code called Woo[dem],
> which spinned of Yade about 2 years ago, has become officially existing at
> http://woodem.eu. The new branch was started to improve extensibility
> (meshfree method I was working on back then), do various
> compatibility-breaking clean-ups and refactoring, and later evolved into
> commercially-backed development of customizable simulation platform.
>
> If you know Yade well, you will find the simulation logic familiar (there
> is a lot inherited, though a lot of the code was also rewritten from
> scratch). If you need to run under Windows, or would like to have
> commercially-supported DEM code, Woo could be an option. I listed some
> differences under http://woodem.eu/doc/user/yade-diff.html .
>
> Feel free to get inspiration for Yade or contact me by e-mail or here (I
> won't be able to reply between May 4th and 26th, be patient).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Václav

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Hien Nguyen (giahien) said : 		#2

Sound cool and look promising.
The motion of development is fast and active, when I read some thesis, the author used SDEC, then YADE appeared. Recently I started with YADE and started to love YADE, now Woo appears.
p.s. I installed it, so far no problem.
Nice work sir!

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Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos) said : 		#3

Thanks for encouragements.

@Klaus: I think comparison will be on-par with Yade, but I did not run any performance tests.

@Nguyen: I did not mean that Woo is a "replacement" for Yade. Glad you like Woo, though.

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liucheng83 (lcheng83) said : 		#4

Hi, smilauer.
I install woo in the win7, but it seems that there is no example. I cannot test it.

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Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) said : 		#5

It is a very interesting project, thank you for letting us know Vaclav (and nice new website to).
It is good to know that you are not too far, so that yade can still be fertilized by your new ideas. :)

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Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos) said : 		#6

@liucheng83: I have not updated the windows version in a month or so, but you should be able to go to the "Preprocess" tab in the main window and run the FallingHorse simulation.