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DEMSLab 5.0 released on February 22, 2022.
AddDate:2022-2-22 | hits:573• The semi-resolved method for CFD-DEM coupling is added.
• The coarse-grain method for CFD-DEM coupling is added.
• All kinds of CFD meshes, including polyhedral mesh, tetrahedral mesh, hexahedral mesh, and pentahedral mesh are supported in CFD-DEM coupling simulation.
• The mesh files (.msh) generated by any versions of Gambit, ICEM CFD and Fluent Meshing are supported.
• A total of 11 drag force models are added for CFD-DEM simulation.
• Virtual mass force model is added for CFD-DEM simulation.
• When the abnormal interruption of calculation occurs, the algorithms that automatically end the CFD coupling solver and MBD coupling solver are added.
• The porosity calculation algorithm in CFD-DEM coupling for periodic boundaries is improved.
• The linear elastic-plastic contact model is added.
• The parallel bond model and the serial bond model are added.
• The simple linear contact model is added.
• The function of bonding particles is added.
• The algorithm using moving computational field is added.
• The computing efficiency has been greatly improved (ranging from 10% to 100% for different cases).
• The particle growth algorithm is added.
• The contact algorithm for polyhedral particles is improved to make the computation more robust.
• The function of import of bonded spheres from ASCII file is added.
• The export function is added to output Tecplot files and sub-sphere files.
• The function of setting the size distribution of multi-sphere particle and multi-super-ellipsoid particle is added.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 is supported.
• The trial version is changed to the community version.
• The default color setting function of shells is added.
• The display of fluid flow in CFD-DEM coupling simulation is added.
• The API including User C Functions and CFD-DEM coupling is improved to adapt all the new functions.
• Many bugs have been fixed.
• This version was released on February 22, 2022.