Feng Chen said: (by the date of Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:06:24 -0500) > Hi, Janek: > Nice to hear from you, thanks for providing and supporting YADE, again!:-) > Regarding your question, as far as I know packmol ( > http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~martinez/packmol/home.shtml) can handle initial > packing of spheres (or even complicated sphere clusters) by maintaining the > minimum distance between the sphere centers using a BOX-QUACAN > optimization, thus if you make the minimum distance greater than > max(r_i)*2, you should have zero overlap between the spheres. > > Let me know if it is similar to you are looking for.
Hi Feng! yes, I am also happy and excited to work with you again. Thank you very much for your warm welcome. PACKMOL indeed seems very interesting, I will have a look at that. It's not exactly what I meant, but in fact it is actually a better solution. I will need to introduce this to other people in my department. Unless the option to save penetration at first iteration is somewhere in yade, which I guess they would prefer ;) cheers -- Janek Kozicki http://janek.kozicki.pl/ | _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-dev Post to : yade-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp