A discretization-convergent Level-Set-DEM
Abstract
The recently developed level-set-DEM is able to seamlessly handle arbitrarily shaped grains and their contacts through a discrete level-set representation of grains' volume and a node-based discretization of their bounding surfaces. Heretofore, the convergence properties of LS-DEM with refinement of these discretizations have not been examined. Here, we examine these properties and show that the original LS-DEM diverges upon surface discretization refinement due to its force-based discrete contact formulation. Next, we fix this issue by adopting a continuum-based contact formulation wherein the contact interactions are traction-based, and show that the adapted LS-DEM is fully discretization convergent. Lastly, we discuss the significance of convergence in capturing the physical response, as well as a few other convergence-related topics of practical importance.
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@article{arxiv.2209.15431,
title = {A discretization-convergent Level-Set-DEM},
author = {Shai Feldfogel and Konstantinos Karapiperis and Jose Andrade and David S. Kammer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.15431},
year = {2022}
}