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[Bruno Chareyre <question256106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #256106 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/256106

Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer:
>How good is yade when it comes to coupling it with CFD?

DEM+CFD is partitionned approach where most of the time is spent for
either pure CFD or data exchanges between DEM and CFD. So, overall, the
performance of yade as a DEM code is irrelevant for estimating the
performance of the coupling, especially if you speak of only 20k spheres
in a cube. The only thing that matters is if the code is flexible enough
to make the implementation of the coupling realistic. On this aspect
yade should be not bad.

For the thermal problem I guess you can average the additional balance equations in a way similar to what is done for conventional CFD. I would consider openFOAM for such coupling, as in Feng Chen's work.
https://sites.google.com/site/fchen3/home

Bruno

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