CFD Events Calendar, Event Record #5813
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Virtual Geoscience Workbench (VGW) Modelling Workshop
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We simulate particulate systems working closely
with fluids applications. The workshop
aims to show potential users the range of discontinuous
systems that can now be modelled with VGW and how
scientists and engineers with modest or more extensive
computer modelling experience may find VGW of interest for
their future research. VGW is an Open Source project that
will be attractive to both users and developers. It has
been launched on a server, managed through Sourceforge.net.
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| Date: |
March 30, 2009
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| Location: |
Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, London, United Kingdom
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| Web Page: |
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/energyenvmodmin/vgw
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| Contact Email: |
j.p.latham@imperial.ac.uk
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| Application Areas: |
Geophysical
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| Special Fields: |
Flows with Particles
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| Deadlines: |
March 6, 2009 (registration)
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| Type of Event: |
Workshop, International
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| Description: |
The Virtual Geoscience Workbench for discontinuous systems,
i.e. particulate, granular, blocky, fracturing and
fragmenting systems, is a computer software environment for
modelling.
VGW is a collaborative 5-year project funded by EPSRC and
is under development on two sites, Imperial College London
(PI: Dr J-P. Latham) and Queen Mary, University of London
(PI: Prof A Munjiza, see also Virtual Experimentation Lab).
We take the view that a single general-purpose discrete
element program is unlikely to be robust for handling all
particulate systems and we have made the combined Finite-
Discrete Element Method (FEMDEM) pioneered by Munjiza in
the 1990s the core of our solids technology. FEMDEM is
especially well suited to irregular geometry with deforming
and fracturing behaviour.
A considerable effort within the VGW research programme on
the IC site has been directed towards coupling the solids
modelling part with a generic adaptive unstructured meshing
cfd code "Fluidity" developed within our department's AMCG
research group, see AMCG Wiki, thus opening the door to
important multi-physics applications. See for example our
work in Coastal Structures.
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Event record first posted on January 30, 2009, last modified on February 17, 2009
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