Dear Vinayak, The particle class is very flexible. You can see it as a Lagrangian container of information for whatever you may need to store information for. I don't foresee any challenges with your approach except if you need to maintain some sort of connectivity between the particles. If you do so, it will require an external data structure, since particles can only store double properties (e.g. mass, density, etc.). We use particles extensively in our code to model granular flows (e.g.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxO4MD_zg2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32ZqxO2X98
On Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:45:55 a.m. UTC-4 vinay...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear deal.II community, > > I am exploring the Particle class to simulate a collection of beams (which > may or may not be in contact with each other). What i have imagined till > now is to have a background grid with "particles" (imagine beams) with > properties of their own. The properties of these particles will contain > information about the beam - for eg. centreline, material, radius, etc. In > particular, i wish to generate the centreline positions using the > triangulation class. > > Then after setting such up a system, i intend to use it for solving for > some of the "properties" of these particles - for eg. the deformed > centreline position. I also wish to use particle-level refinement for some > selected particles (here beams). Therefore, different "particles" (imagine > beams) will have different number of properties. > > It would really help me if someone could comment on the viability of my > idea to use the Particle class for such a problem. > > Thanks > Vinayak > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/d408996a-afab-45bc-a2c7-6fe98a327d5cn%40googlegroups.com.
