I developed a Discrete Element Method (soft sphere method) which permit to simulate dry granular flows. This tool, named GraDyM (for Granular Dynamic Modeling), has been adapted to deal with numerous grains (simulation up to one million grains on one processor) using chain lists of structures in Fortran90.
The GraDyM software is now parallelized based on a domain decomposition method, with MPI, to simulate large scale dry flows.
Binary collision in 3 dimensions.
Collapse of granular columns: 4000 grains in a 2 dimensional geometry.
A 3 dimensional unidirectional collapse of sand. Periodicity is applied along the spanwise direction.