Perfect Sailing wrote:

>Hi,everyone.
>In the  TriaxialTestWater.cpp there is a comment "this
>test will not work without data file for capillary
>law",and in CapillaryCohesiveLaw.cpp it's said the
>import files in the "../data",whose filename like
>M(r=...) .However i can't find the files in yade
>dirctionary.
>Is there any papers about the capillary law in yade? I
>don't know the parameters V,F,delta1 and delta2 stand
>for what and how the capillary were computed in
>CapillaryCohesiveLaw.cpp.
>Thank you!
>                                            zhanglin
>  
>
Hi Zhanglin

In fact, capillary files (M(r=...)) are not yet implemented in Yade directory 
because  I am actually working on capillary effects modelling for my PhD thesis 
(currently, I can send them to whom is interested). 

The capillary law is based on a resolution scheme of the Laplace Young equation 
which defines capillary water liquid bridges between 2 spherical bodies. You 
can see paragraph 2 from "Influence of liquid bridges on the mechanical 
behaviour of polydisperse granular materials" by Fabien SouliƩ, International 
Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 2006, (30): 
213-228 for the resolution scheme. Instead of F. SouliƩ, I did not tried to 
find an analytical form for the capillary force: the force F, volume of water V 
and half-filling angles delta1 and delta2 for each grain-pair of radii R1 and 
R2 are computed from the capillary files, depending on the defined capillary 
pressure (the unique additionnal input parameter in the interface) and the 
R2/R1 ratio (denoted r in M(r=...)).

Few more description of my work can be found in the Annual report of the 
Discrete Element Group from our lab : 
http://geo.hmg.inpg.fr/frederic/Discrete_Element_Group_FVD.html

I hope this will be enough to clarify the CapillaryCohesiveLaw computations. If 
not, I will be pleased to teach you more. 

Regards

    Luc

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