Powder Spreading Using a Moving Roller
Application ID: 140611
This example uses the Granular Flow interface to model the formation of the grain heap and then its subsequent spreading using a cylindrical roller. The roller has a combined rotational and translational motion. The resulting powder bed is then analyzed to determine its quality based on its packing fraction. Additional packing characteristics such as the distribution of the grain center heights and the coordination numbers are also evaluated.
This model also demonstrates the process of restarting the granular flow simulations whereby the information of the grains from one study step is used as the initial conditions for a subsequent study step.
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