THM short-course

This tutorial was used by Bruno Chareyre and Robert Caulk to help teach the 3-day Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical coupling short-course in Amsterdam on June 20, 2022.

Slides and other supplementary material can be downloaded here.

Meanwhile, the following hands-on guides are designed to be followed sequentially by someone who is unfamiliar with Python and Yade:

• Installing Yade (for Windows and Mac users)
  • Easiest way - Use our premade Virtual Machine (Windows)
  • Less easy way - Create your own Virtual Machine (MacOS)
  • Hard way - Dual Boot (MacOS or Windows)
• Introduction to Bash and Python
  • Terminal
  • Keys
  • Starting yade
  • Yade basics
  • Particles
  • Singles
  • Packs
  • Boundaries
  • Look inside
  • Engines
• Day 1 - Yade Hands-on part 1
  • Let’s create a bouncing sphere
  • Starting the Script
• Day 1 - Yade Hands-on part 2
  • Building a rotating-drum
  • Visualizing the output files
  • Example script
• Day 2 - Fluids Hands-on part 1
  • Triaxial Stress Control
  • Engine list
  • Finding an equilibrated state
  • Remeshing parameters
  • Getting the starting permeability
  • Starting the oedometer
  • Plotting live data
  • Example script
• Day 3 - Thermal Hands-on part 1
  • Gathering field data
  • Example script
• Day 3 - Thermal Hands-on part 2
  • Compacting the specimen
  • Setting up the FlowEngine()
  • Setting up the ThermalEngine()
  • Running the coupled simulation
  • Example script