1st Yade Workshop

Yet Another Discrete Element Workshop

Grenoble, July 7-9, 2014

Objectives

The 1st Yade Workshop will be organised on 7-9 July in Grenoble, France.

The main objective of this workshop is to gather people interested in DEM-related developments and discuss different topics like algorithmic issues, performance, parallelization, new models and couplings, experiences with various softwares, etc.

Applications of the DEM are not the priority. However, some time may be allocated for them in order to have an overview of the current trends on this side (maybe half a day, in the form of 15' talks), especially for the applications that require new developments.

The largest part of the workshop will be dedicated to the numerical/development aspects. And part of this (maybe the last day) will take the form of less formal meetings focused on the Yade project.

The 1st Yade Workshop will be an opportunity for the people developping Yade-DEM or other DEM codes to meet each other, share ideas and elaborate workplans and cooperations.

In the third day, a coding session suggested by Klaus Thoeni might be organised for Yade devs.

Contact & Registration

For submission of contributions, registration and practical informations, do not hesitate to email us.

A template registration form is here, please fill in your data and send it to the above adress.

Invited Speakers

• Anton Gladky (TU Freiberg)
• Klaus Thoeni (Univ. Newcastle AU)
• Alexander Eulitz (TU Berlin)
• Frédéric Donzé (Univ. Grenoble)
• Jan Stránský (TU Prague)
• Jérôme Duriez(Univ. Grenoble)
• Christian Jakob (TU Freiberg)
• Burak ER
• François Kneib(IRSTEA Grenoble)
• Vaclav Smilauer (Prague)
• Ricardo Pieralisi

Organizing Comitee

• Bruno Chareyre (Grenoble IT)
• Caroline Chalak (Grenoble IT)

Preliminary Program

Extending DEM

• Complex shapes, clumps, wires, grids, membranes
• Applications of DEM in various field (depends on submitted contributions)

Multiscale methods

• Multidomain DEM-FEM
• Multiscale DEMxFEM

Multiphysics couplings

• DEM vs. fluid flow (different types of)
• Three-phase models
• Other multiphysics couplings

Softwares

• A review of DEM codes
• Woo DEM
• Couplings different softwares via Python
• Operating systems
• Compilation time (of Yade-DEM...)

Performance and parallelization

• Benchmarks
• Bottlenecks
• OMP vs. MPI vs. GPU
• Hardware
• Contact detection

The Yade Project

• Hosting
• Packaging
• Management
• Funding
• Documentation & editorial aspects

Coding Fest (chairman: Klaus Thoeni)

• Collaborative work on Yade code/website

Acknowledgement

The workshop is supported by Maimosine.