Lagrangian Particle Tacking
 

Dear FOAMers:

Rencetly, I am implementing a particle-particle collision model into lagrange/intermediate/. When I test a case for tracking a lot of particles at different diameter sizes, which of some are the biger than the grid size, I find the small particles are not beyond the boundary, it is right, but the biger ones have strange behavour, particle sphere border will cross the mesh boundary. I want to known whether the track algorithm has limit to require particle size smaller than mesh size or somewhere exist a bug.

I will be very glad if I know your suggestions for solving this problem.

Best regards

Nording

Hi Nording,

You are correct, the particle code only checks for intersections in the particle's current cell. If the particle is larger than the cell-size (approximately) then the particle can 'miss' the surface, while still being less than it's radius away.

As for overcoming this, I am not sure - we are planning to tackle it by using a distance field, or something similar, to check for impact. At the moment it's not a problem for us (small particles), so we haven't gone very far along this approach.


I would be interested to know how you are implementing the collision mechanics/tests however.

Cheers
Andrew