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[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx>]

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
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