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Improved DEM algorithms for numerical modeling of geophysical processes in a block media
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics - Theoretical and Applied Aspects, May 2019, Volume 2019, p.1 - 5
Abstract
An important area of geoinformation researches is the creation a software packages for modeling different tasks of the dynamics natural media and technological processes. Recently, a new direction for numerical simulation of processes in structured media with the help of Discrete Element Method (DEM) is developing. Many packages are known and used in this direction: with open code - Yade, LAMMPS, LIGGGHTS and others; commercial packages – ITASCA(PFC3D, 3DEC), Rocky, EDEM and others. For example, new results were obtained in modeling by similar methods tectonic processes, halokinesis and seismic processes. We developed the computer program CuBluck for DEM modeling of three-dimensional processes in a block media consisting of cubes. Results on modeling of subduction by using the approach to the lithosphere as to a block medium were obtained. The behavior of the block environment under the influence of static and dynamic loads was investigated. Numerical modelling of shear processes in a granular medium was performed.