Open-source Non-spherical Discrete Element Program SudoDEM: A Preview in One Picture

The open-source non-spherical discrete element program SudoDEM aims to provide researchers with a rapid tool for non-spherical particle modeling.

Particle shape has an important influence on the physical and mechanical properties of granular media, therefore, discrete element non-spherical particle modeling is of great significance. The open-source non-spherical discrete element program SudoDEM aims to provide researchers with a rapid tool for non-spherical particle modeling. SudoDEM provides 2D and 3D versions, three general non-spherical particle contact detection algorithms, particle shapes include spheres and their clumps, super-ellipsoids, extended super-ellipsoids, polyhedra, etc., mixed programming of Python and C++, supports OpenMP multi-core parallelism. More features will be improved in subsequent development, and everyone is welcome to download, use and test. The development team looks forward to like-minded people joining us!

The open-source discrete element program SudoDEM was officially released as open source at the 8th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods (DEM8, Netherlands, 2019.7);
Project homepage: https://sudodem.github.io, source code hosted on GitHub repository (https://github.com/SudoDEM);
Anyone can modify and edit the source code and project website under the GPL v3 open source license.