Chrono DEM-Engine: an Efficient and Versatile DEM Simulator

EasyChair Preprint 13350

Abstract

This work introduces Chrono DEM-Engine, a physics-based simulator for granular materials such as particles, grains, and powders. The simulator, which draws on the Discrete Element Method (DEM), can handle complex geometric shapes via composite geometries made of heterogeneous spheres of user-specified radii. Just like its Chrono::GPU predecessor, Chrono DEM-Engine is open-source. It and can leverage dual-GPU computation to accelerate the granular dynamics of system that comprise tens of millions of elements.

Keyphrases: Code Validation, DEM-Engine, Discrete Element Method, GPU computation, chrono, particle method

@booklet{EasyChair:13350,
  author    = {Bonaventura Tagliafierro and Ruochun Zhang and Dan Negrut},
  title     = {Chrono DEM-Engine: an Efficient and Versatile DEM Simulator},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 13350},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}