Design of Experiment-style Studies with the EDEM Coupling Interface

With Version 2_1_0 and onwards, the EDEM Coupling Interface was expanded to enable geometry sections to be imported and deleted at any point in a simulation.

This allows equipment designs to be evolved through co-simulation with Design-Of-Experiment (DOE) style programs or parametric CAD packages. This capability in the EDEM Coupling Interface also allows the automatic creation of many simulations for batch mode running containing variations on geometry or geometry dynamics.

Importing a Geometry

The loadGeometry method will create a new geometry section in the EDEM simulation and name it using the CAD file name which is read in. The import process will use the same default parameters as shown in the EDEM Creator Geometry import dialog, any changes to the defaults can be specified via the setGeometryImportParameters method, which should be invoked prior to calling the loadGeometry method.

Assigning a Material to a Geometry

Prior to loading a geometry, you must specify the material to assign to the geometry section that's about to be loaded. The relevant ID is obtained via a call to getMaterialId.

Deleting a Geometry

Use the name of the target geometry to delete it from the simulation via a call to removeGeometry.

Assigning Kinematics to Geometry

The EDEM Coupling Interface has the ability to assign built-in kinematics to a target geometry. The kinematics are assigned using:

addLinearTranslationKinematic, addLinearRotationKinematic, addSinusoidalTranslationKinematic, addSinusoidalRotationKinematic, addConveyorTranslatonKinematic, and addConveyorRotationKinematic

The parameters for each of the dynamics represent the values that are available in the configuration section of ‘Add Kinematic’ GUI for the selected kinematic type.

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