How to get the infomation about particle-particle contact? (dem)

Hi! I’m working with a fluidized bed case and wonder if I can get more information about particle-particle contacts within the bed, such as the frequency of contacts.

Junyu,

Anything not listed as an option in the “Output” tab (such as diameter, volume fraction, etc.) typically needs to be stored in a user variable before it can be output from the simulation. I’m not quite sure what you mean by frequency of contacts, but you can store something like particle-particle coordination number in DES_USR_VAR using user defined functions. Any further post-processing can be done in Paraview.

Hope that helps!