Particleworks 6.2 Released

By February 22, 2019August 9th, 2019Newest Release

MotionPort is pleased to announce the release of Particleworks 6.2, the meshless liquid fluid simulation software based on the Moving Particle Simulation (MPS) method.

Particleworks 6.2 supports co-simulation with flexible bodies of RecurDyn. R-Flex (linear elastic bodies) as well as  F-Flex (nonlinear elastic bodies) with large deformation can interact with polygon walls in Particleworks (defined as patch sets in RecurDyn). Simultaneously, RecurDyn calculates the deformation, dynamic stress and strain under the fluid force calculated by Particleworks.

Click on the play button below to watch RecurDyn/Particleworks co-simulation in motion.

 

Other Particleworks updated features include:
​Mixing Degree Evaluation – Powder and granular materials are segregated due to various characteristics, such as their particle size, surface roughness and particle shapes. There have been many studies based on statistics of mixed state analyses. However, due to the statistical errors, it was impossible to evaluate the local mixed states or the mixed states of micro-components. Particleworks can solve this problem by using an evaluation system for mixing degrees based on entropy. By removing the statistical error it is now possible to evaluate the degree of mixing for arbitrary spatial resolution.
NVIDIA CUDA9.1 Support – Particleworks solver has been updated to support the latest CPU & GPU architectures.

Particleworks 6.2 supports CUDA 9.1 (NVIDIA Volta architecture) which has been developed to be the most powerful computing engine for both computational and data science.

This significantly boosts the performance of the Particleworks solver and allows users to perform large-scale simulations of up to tens of millions of particles.

Solver enhancement for openMP and MPI –Particleworks makes the most of the latest hardware environments, supporting multithreading (OpenMP) and multiprocessing (MPI), in addition to SSE/AVX instructions on CPUs.


If you would like to learn more about the RecurDyn/Particleworks co-simulation, please click here to contact us to schedule a web meeting.