1st Yade Workshop

Yet Another Discrete Element Workshop

Grenoble, July 7-9, 2014

Objectives

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

Particle-scale modeling remains an area of active developments, decades after the pioneering work of P. Cundall. A large part of these developments is mirrored by contributions to the open source platform Yade-DEM.

The objective of this workshop is to gather people interested in DEM and DEM-related developments, with special focus on new models and couplings, algorithmic issues, performance and parallelization.

The [preliminary program] is available.

The list of sessions includes:

• DEM applications
• Numerical methods and modeling techniques
• Complex shapes
• Multiphase couplings

The last day will take the form of short talks and less formal meetings focused on the Yade-DEM project. A coding session will be organised for Yade devs, and coordinated by Klaus Thoeni.

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

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)
• Václav Šmilauer (Prague)
• Ricardo Pieralisi (Univ. Catalunya)
• Janek Kozicki (TU Gdansk)
• Emanuele Catalano (Itasca CG Lyon)

Organizing Comitee

• Bruno Chareyre (Grenoble Inst. of Tech. / 3SR Lab)
• Caroline Chalak (Grenoble Inst. of Tech. / 3SR Lab)

Preliminary Program

Applications of the DEM

• Applications of DEM in various fields

Extending DEM

• Complex shapes, clumps
• Wires, grids, membranes

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

Performance and parallelization

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

The Yade Project

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

Coding Fest (chairman: Klaus Thoeni)

• Collaborative work on Yade code/website
• Brainstorming

Acknowledgement

The workshop is supported by Maimosine.